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Auction: 13019 - North East Indian Coins from the Nicholas Rhodes Collection
Lot: 4

Sultans of Bengal, Rukn al-Din Barbak (AH 864-879; AD 1459-74), Tanka, 10.46g, AH 873, Barbakabad, darb al-sultan al-'adil al-a'zam barbakshah sultan ibn mahmud shah khallad allah mulkahu ...? rev. Kalima with mint and date below, both sides within circle and margin with decorations and wording, this type for Barbakabad not in G&G, a couple of shroff-marks and dark toning, attractive very fine, very rare

There is an unread word below the mint name and to the right of the date. The last word on the obverse is also uncertain. On other coins of this overall type the obverse legend ends in wa sul?Ānahu, but that is not the case here.

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£140