Jital - 'Bronze' - Vakka Deva - Shahis of Ohind - 750-1000 AD

The Kabul Shahis held the mountain passes connecting the Indian subcontinent to Central Asia at a moment when Arab expansion was pressing hard from the west. The bronze jitals attributed to Vakka Deva were struck as the dynasty navigated that pressure — ultimately losing Kabul itself to the Saffarids in the late ninth century and retreating east toward Ohind on the Indus, where minting continued under increasingly constrained territory.

Tye 9.3 is among the more frequently encountered types from this sequence, though the attribution to specific rulers within the late Shahi period remains contested in the literature. Mitchiner's NI 128 classification places it within a broader typological family whose precise dynastic boundaries are still debated.