1 Jital - Shams al Din Iltutmish

Iltutmish consolidated the Delhi Sultanate into a functioning independent state after severing its administrative ties to the Ghurid sultanate following the assassination of Qutb ud-Din Aibak in 1210. His coinage reform was deliberate policy — he introduced the silver tanka and copper jital as a standardized bimetallic system, the first coherent monetary framework in the subcontinent under Sultanate rule. The billon jital sits at the lower end of that hierarchy, struck for everyday transaction in a cash economy that was still absorbing the shock of Turkic conquest.

Iltutmish also received formal investiture from the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad in 1229, lending his issues a legitimacy his predecessors lacked.