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1 Jital - Sayf al din Qarlugh
| Issuer | Sindh, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1239-1249 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Nagari |
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| Reverse lettering | श्री हसन कर्लक |
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Sayf al-Din Qarlugh was a Mongol-era survivor in the most literal sense — a former slave commander who carved out autonomous control of Sindh and the Ghazni region after the Mongol destruction of the Ghaznavid order, ruling as a nominal vassal while playing Mongol and Delhi Sultanate factions against each other for over a decade. His coinage is the physical record of that balancing act: a local billon issue asserting administrative authority in a region where political legitimacy was genuinely contested. The Delhi Sultans eventually absorbed his territory, and his dynasty ended with him.