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Jital - Muizz al-din Muhammad bin Sam

Obverse description	Stylized recumbent bull facing left in the central field, rendered in a schematic, highly abstracted manner characteristic of post-Shahiya Ghurid coinage derived from earlier Hindu Shahi prototypes. Pellets are visible in the field adjacent to the animal's body. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, though strike irregularities cause portions of the border to fall off the flan.
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Obverse lettering	श्री मद
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Additional information	Muizz al-din Muhammad bin Sam — better known in Western historiography as Muhammad of Ghor — used coinage as a deliberate instrument of political transition during his Indian campaigns. His jitals, struck across mints in the Punjab and Gandharan regions, initially retained Hindu iconographic conventions to ease absorption of conquered populations, then shifted progressively toward Islamic formulas as control solidified. The First Battle of Tarain in 1191 ended in his defeat by Prithviraj Chauhan; the rematch in 1192 did not, and the mint output reflects the administrative reorganization that followed almost immediately. Tye 178.1 is among the better-documented varieties of his billon issues.