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1 Jital - Shams al-Din Iltutmish anonymous
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1211-1236 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Iltutmish consolidated the Delhi Sultanate into a genuinely independent power after breaking from the Ghurid successor states, receiving direct investiture from the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad in 1229 — a legitimizing move that shaped his coinage policy considerably. The anonymous attribution on this type reflects the complex religious politics of a Turkish slave-king ruling a Muslim sultanate on the subcontinent, where overtly personal coinage carried dynastic risks. Copper jitals circulated at the street level of the bazaar economy while silver tankas handled larger transactions, making these small flans the workhorses of daily commerce in 13th-century northern India.