TIMUR THE GREAT TIMURID EMPIRE 1370-1405

AR TANKA 6.03gm 28x25mm ASTARABAD MINT

UNDATED BUT CLOSE TO FULL WEIGHT RARE SUBTYPE

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A COMMON COIN WITH AT LEAST 100 SUBTYPES (MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED) WHICH CHANGED PERIODICALLY OVER 15 YEARS. IMPERIAL DESIGNS WERE NOT STANDARDIZED UNTIL THE REIGN OF SHAHRUKH. MOST SPECIMENS WEIGH BETWEEN 5.75 AND 6.15g AND MOST VARIETIES LACK THE MINT NAME, DATE OR BOTH.

TAMERLANE THE GREAT (TIMUR GURKANI OR TIMUR THE LAME) LITERALLY ‘IRON’, AND NICKNAMED THE SWORD OF ISLAM: BORN IN 1336 TO THE AMIR TARAGHAI AND TEKINA KHATUN IN THE CITY OF KESH. ON HIS FATHER’S SIDE, HE SHARED ANCESTRY WITH GENGHIS KHAN (AND CONSIDERED HIMELF HIS HEIR AND ENVISIONED RESTORATION OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE). HE WAS A TURCO-MONGOL CONQUEROR WHO FOUNDED THE TIMURID EMPIRE IN CENTRAL ASIA AROUND MODERN DAY AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN. HE WAS AN UNDEFEATED COMMANDER AND IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST BRUTAL MILITARY LEADERS IN HISTORY. HE FOUGHT AND DEFEATED THE GOLDEN HORDE, THE MAMLUKS OF EGYPT, THE OTTOMANS AND THE SULTANS OF DELHI. BY THE END OF HIS REIGN HE HAD GAINED COMPLETE CONTROL OVER ALL THE REMNANTS OF THE CHAGATAI KHANATE, THE ILKHANATE AND THE GOLDEN HORDE. IT IS SAID THAT HIS MILITARY CAMPAIGNS CAUSED THE DEATHS OF 17 MILLION PEOPLE. HE DIED IN 1405. HE HAD 43 WIVES AND 9 SONS AND DAUGHTERS AND WAS THE GRANDFATHER OF SULTAN ULUGH BEG AND THE GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER OF BABUR, THE FOUNDER OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE.