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1 Dinar 'Gold 20-ratti'- in the name of Muizz ud-din Muhammad bin Sam 'Muhammad of Ghor'
| Issuer | Bengal, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1193-1206 |
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| Value | 1 Dinar |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a recumbent humped bull (Nandi) facing right, with a seated deity or rider figure above its back rendered in a stylized Indo-Hindu artistic tradition. The bull type design is clearly derived from earlier Chandela or Gahadavala gold coinage, adapted under Ghurid authority. A Nagari legend encircles the central motif along the periphery, partially visible on the irregular flan. The overall composition retains the iconographic vocabulary of pre-Islamic Indian coinage, reflecting the transitional syncretism of early Ghurid issues struck for circulation in the Indian subcontinent. |
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| Obverse lettering | samvat 1262 bhadrapada |
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| Reverse script | Nagari |
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