1 Tanka - Nasir al-din Mahmud Hadrat Dehli mint

Nasir al-din Mahmud is something of an anomaly among Delhi Sultans — a ruler described by contemporaries as so personally devout that he reportedly earned his own living copying manuscripts rather than drawing on the treasury. His reign coincided with the growing dominance of his regent and father-in-law Balban, who exercised real power for most of these two decades while Mahmud occupied the throne. The Hadrat Dehli mint designation here reflects the ceremonial formulation used at the principal sultanate mint in this period.