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1 Jital - Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah I
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1247-1266 |
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| Value | 1 Jital (1⁄48) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nasir al-Din Mahmud Shah I is an anomaly among Delhi sultans — a ruler described by contemporaries, including the chronicler Minhaj-i-Siraj, as genuinely pious and personally austere, reportedly copying manuscripts for income rather than drawing extravagantly from the treasury. Real power during his reign resided with his father-in-law Ghiyas al-Din Balban, who governed as naib and systematically marginalized the Shamsi nobles who had dominated the court for decades. These jitals circulated through a sultanate undergoing a slow but decisive administrative consolidation under Balban's hand.