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1 Jital - Shams ud-Din Iltutmish
| Issuer | Delhi Sultanate |
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| Year | 1211-1236 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears a multi-line Arabic inscription in Naskh script arranged in horizontal registers, giving the name and titles of Sultan Shams ud-Din Iltutmish. The legend is enclosed within a rudimentary square or linear border, typical of early Delhi Sultanate hammered billon coinage. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with weak strike areas consistent with hand-hammered production. |
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| Reverse lettering | السلطان |
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Iltutmish is the ruler who genuinely consolidated the Delhi Sultanate — inheriting a fragile experiment from Qutb ud-Din Aibak and transforming it into a functioning state with its own administrative and monetary infrastructure. His coinage replaced the inherited Ghorid types with explicitly Sultanate issues, a deliberate assertion of independent authority. The Mongol destruction of the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258 was still decades away, so his coins still carry the Caliph's name as legitimizing authority — a political calculation, not piety.
Billon jitals of this type circulated alongside pure copper issues, occupying the workhorse denomination of everyday trade in northern India.