How Far Back Can We Go? Seventh Edition! Ended At 1380 Waiting On 1379

Sorry, a bit of a busy day full of distractions...

[Post expanded with more detail; photos reordered from the original version of the post to show off the match better.]



Shirvanshahs, Derbendi dynasty
Khalilullah I (r. 1418-65)
AR tanka (tanga?), Shamakhi mint
dated (8)56 AH = 1452 AD
Album 2470, Zeno cat. 25110
Zlobin 034.4 [pictured]; cf. Zeno 19772 (different date)
Numista 381689 (but a different subtype)

...no weight and size, sorry. Looks like I never bothered to take the measurements.


I believe this is the first coin in this thread so far with the date spelled out in words - or the first Islamic one, at least (we might have had some 20th century South American examples and maybe some others).

Date attribution per Zlobin; Album apparently lists this date as dubious! No examples of this date on Zeno as I write this but maybe I should try to send my coin for confirmation.
My example is sufficiently off center on the reverse to include part of an apparent ring of dots that Zlobin doesn't mention! I think it might be a different die from his illustration. Obverse seems to match, though.


EDIT 2: I checked the Zlobin catalog again and the very first specific illustration for the type is literally my coin.
So now I have measurements: 16 mm, 3.78 grams.

(There is supposed to be a plate illustration as well, but that part can't be seen in the Google Books copy.)

How good is that! Serendipity!

For me, that is an interesting coin as I haven't seen a similar one of that era before, only relatively newer coins from the 1700's. Not so surprising though, as eastern and Islamic type coins are a relatively new venture for me.

That chart is coming in handy!

Jaunpur Sultanate AE falus AH (8)54 (1450 CE) GG-J16

Nice falus, @bd251. The interpretation of the date made clear by having the 5 and 4 together ! (very considerate of the engraver)

We need Spence to quick mucking about the old Identiciation topics...

http://goccf.com/t/364499&whichpage=455#3805883

We Need - 1449 C.E. (A.H. 853) -

...the other thread currently looks likely to become stuck at 1390 waiting for 1389, so there's 59 days of catch-up left, i.e. an earliest catch-up point of July 7th (6th if the 1390 coin isn't posted, but that looks unlikely).
Of course that assumes no further stalls and I'd be really surprised if that's the case. Realistically I expect we'd probably catch up sometime in mid-to-late July.

Paging Spence! Please report to the HFBCWG7 topic!