Nasir al-Din Mahmud is something of an anomaly among Delhi Sultans — a ruler described by contemporary chroniclers as personally pious to the point of copying Qurans by hand for income, deliberately distancing himself from the court's wealth. Real power during his reign rested almost entirely with his father-in-law Ghiyas ud-Din Balban, who served as naib and effectively governed the Sultanate for over two decades before seizing the throne himself in 1266.
The Tye 405 attribution places this within a well-documented jital sequence continuing bull-and-horseman types inherited from pre-Sultanate coinage — a deliberate continuity with earlier Rajput issues that facilitated trade acceptance in the Delhi hinterland.
Nasir al-Din Mahmud is something of an anomaly among Delhi Sultans — a ruler described by contemporary chroniclers as personally pious to the point of copying Qurans by hand for income, deliberately distancing himself from the court's wealth. Real power during his reign rested almost entirely with his father-in-law Ghiyas ud-Din Balban, who served as naib and effectively governed the Sultanate for over two decades before seizing the throne himself in 1266.
The Tye 405 attribution places this within a well-documented jital sequence continuing bull-and-horseman types inherited from pre-Sultanate coinage — a deliberate continuity with earlier Rajput issues that facilitated trade acceptance in the Delhi hinterland.