Jital - 'Ala al-din Muhammad 'Muhammad II of Khwarezm' Elephant right

Muhammad II spent much of his reign in open defiance of the Abbasid Caliph al-Nasir, at one point attempting to install his own rival caliph — a move that backfired badly and may have contributed to al-Nasir's alleged diplomatic overtures to Chinggis Khan. The irony is sharp: the most powerful ruler in the Islamic east, issuer of coins across a vast stretch of Central Asia, was effectively undone by the political consequences of his own overreach before the Mongols even crossed his frontier.

Jitals of this type circulated widely across the eastern fringes of the empire into the Ghaznavid-influenced zones of the subcontinent, where the elephant type had deep numismatic roots.