1 Jital In the name of Mustans'ir Billah

Iltutmish, who ruled the Delhi Sultanate from 1211 to 1236, issued coinage in the name of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mustansir Billah as a deliberate act of political legitimation — acknowledging Sunni caliphal authority while Baghdad still stood. After the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258 and executed the last Abbasid caliph, such coins became relics of a world order that had ceased to exist. This piece predates that destruction by decades.