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1 Jital - Anangapala II 1049-1079 Tomara de Delhi
| Issuer | Tomara dynasty |
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| Year | 1049-1079 |
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| Currency | Jital (736-1176) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by bold Sharada/Nagari script characters rendered in high relief against a flat field, reading the royal epithet श्री सामन्त देव (Shri Samanta Deva). The die-cut lettering is deeply impressed and stylised in the manner characteristic of Tomara-period billon coinage. The coin is enclosed by a beaded border running along the full circumference, partially irregular due to the flan's uneven edges. The overall execution is typical of the hammered coinage of the Delhi Tomara rulers, with the script occupying the majority of the flan. |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears bold Sharada/Nagari script in high relief reading श्री अनंगपाल देव (Shri Anangapala Deva), the name and title of the ruling Tomara king Anangapala II. The characters are deeply struck and stylised, consistent with 11th-century north Indian hammered coinage conventions. A beaded border encircles the flan, though partially obscured by the coin's irregular periphery. The field shows slight die wear and surface granularity characteristic of billon hammered issues of this period. |
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The Tomara rulers of Delhi remain one of the least-documented dynasties of early medieval India, known almost entirely through their coinage rather than surviving inscriptions or chronicles. Anangapala II is traditionally credited with founding or substantially expanding the city of Delhi itself — a claim supported by a later Chahamana inscription that references him moving the founding nail of Delhi — though the precise historicity of that account is disputed. These billon jitals circulated across a region that would, within two centuries, become the seat of the Delhi Sultanate.