Jital - Muhammad Bin Sam Dehli type-muled ND

Reverse

Horseman with lance, facing right
Above: `sri prithvi raya deva' in Devanagari

Script: Devanagari

Translation:
Name of the previous ruler, Prithvi Raja of Chauhan dynasty.
[see comment for details]

Edge

Plain

Comment

Weight varies 3-3.20g

Jital or Dehliwal (Muhammad Bin Sam) Dehli type-muled

These 32 rati coins were muled with the die of the Chauhan ruler, Prithvi Raja, who ruled before Mu'izz Al-Din Muhammad Bin Sam.
Obv: Rev:

History
Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Sām, also called Muhammad of Ghor, or simply Muhammad Ghori, or Shihāb al-Dīn Muḥammad Ghūrī, (born 1144 CE - died March 15, 1206, Damyak, India), was from the Ghurid dynasty (based in Ghor in present-day central Afghanistan) who ruled from 1173 to 1206 CE (AH 589-602). He conquered the north Indian plain and was one of the founders of Muslim rule in India.

Coinage *
The coins issued in the name of Muhammad Bin Sam were issued from (a) Ghazna and elsewhere in the Ghurid territories outside India; (b) northern India by his general Aibak; and (c) Bengal (east India) by Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji.

In India, the Muslim conquerors continued to strike the indigenous gold and billon coin types that were in use but added the name of Muhammad Bin Sam. The Billon Jitals or Dehliwals can be assigned to three minting places - Dehli (or Delhi), Lahore and Badaun, They can also be divided into 3 main types:
 

• bull on the obverse and horseman on reverse (as in this coin)
   
• ruler's name in Arabic on obverse and horseman on reverse
   
• ruler's title in Arabic spread over both sides
   

[* source Goron & Goenka]

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