Jital - 'Ala al-din Muhammad 'Muhammad II of Khwarezm' Horse type - Baluqan Mint

Muhammad II's Khwarezmian Empire briefly controlled one of the largest territorial expanses in Islamic history before Genghis Khan's campaigns of 1219–1221 effectively ended it. The Baluqan mint, active in the northern reaches of Khwarezm, produced jitals for a commercial economy built on Silk Road transit trade — revenue that funded the very armies that proved insufficient against the Mongols. Billon jitals of this horse type circulated widely across the region's bazaars, and surviving examples frequently show the heavy wear consistent with intensive mercantile use before the Mongol destruction of the mint cities made further production impossible.