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1 Jital - Qutb ud-Din Mubarak
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1316-1320 |
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| Weight | 3.60 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field filled with a multi-line Arabic legend in bold, raised Naskh script arranged across three or four horizontal registers, recording the name and titles of the sultan and the Abbasid caliph. The inscription fills the flan edge to edge, consistent with the dense epigraphic style typical of Delhi Sultanate jitals of the Khalji period. The strike is characteristic of a hand-hammered billon piece, showing slight flatness at the periphery and a lightly irregular flan with no border ornament. |
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| Reverse lettering | قطب الدين مبارك شاه |
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Qutb ud-Din Mubarak Shah's reign lasted just four years before he was murdered by his own favorite, Khusraw Khan, who briefly seized the throne. The Delhi Sultanate's billon coinage of this period reflects the fiscal exhaustion left by Alauddin Khalji's aggressive market control policies and prolonged military campaigns — the silver content in small change had been degrading for years before Mubarak inherited the mint.