1 Jital - Shams al-Din Iltutmish

Iltutmish consolidated the Delhi Sultanate into a functioning imperial state after inheriting a fractured kingdom from Qutb ud-Din Aibak in 1210, and his coinage was central to that project. He was the first Delhi sultan to issue coins in his own name with a proper Islamic formula — a deliberate assertion of legitimacy toward both his subjects and the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad, from whom he sought and received formal recognition around 1229.

The billon jital denomination descended directly from pre-Islamic Shahi coinage conventions, retained for practical reasons of local trade familiarity.