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Jital - 'Ala al-din Muhammad 'Muhammad II of Khwarezm' Elephant left
| Issuer | Khwarezmian Empire |
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| Year | 1200-1220 |
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| Weight | 2.25 g |
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| Obverse description | Multi-line Arabic legend occupying the central field within a decorative inner border, reading 'Al-Sultan Al-Azam Muhammad bin Al-Sultan' in Naskh-style script. The inscription is arranged in horizontal registers across the flan. An outer dotted border frames the design. The strike is typical of hammered billon coinage of the Khwarezmian period, with characteristic irregular flan edges. |
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| Reverse script | Arabic |
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Muhammad II's campaigns against the Ghurids and eventual destruction of their sultanate by 1215 briefly made Khwarezm the dominant power from the Caspian to the Indus. The elephant type on these jitals reflects the absorption of Ghurid minting traditions — a direct inheritance from the iconographic conventions of the Indian frontier zone rather than anything native to Khwarezmian coinage. Within a decade of this issue, the entire empire was gone, dismantled by the Mongol invasion of 1219–1221.