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Jital - Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud b. Muhammad
| Issuer | Ghurid Dynasty |
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| Year | 1206-1212 |
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| Weight | 2.8 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a horseman in profile facing right, seated upon a walking horse; the rider's arm appears raised, rendered in a schematic Indo-Muslim style characteristic of Ghurid jitals. The design is executed in bold, stylized relief with a dotted border partially encircling the central motif. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with the hammered fabric visible at the edges. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a multi-line Arabic inscription filling the central field, presenting the ruler's titles and name in a dense, interlocking Naskh-influenced script typical of Ghurid coinage. The legend, referencing Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud, is arranged in several registers across the flat field. A partial dotted border frames the inscription, though the irregular flan causes portions of the border to be incomplete. The hammered strike produces slightly uneven relief across the die. |
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Ghiyath al-Din Mahmud inherited what remained of the Ghurid sultanate after his father Muhammad of Ghor was assassinated in 1206 — the same year the Delhi Sultanate effectively began consolidating independently under Qutb al-Din Aibak. Mahmud's reign was one of managed contraction, the dynasty's Afghan heartland increasingly squeezed between Khwarazmian pressure from the north and the growing autonomy of former slave-generals to the east.
Tye 144.2 belongs to a billon jital tradition that persisted well past the dynasty's political peak, minted at volume for local commercial use in the Ghur and Bust regions. The Khwarazmians extinguished the Ghurid line entirely by 1215.