Jital - Muizz al-din Muhammad bin Sam Ghorid of Ghazna / Delhi mint

Muizz al-din Muhammad bin Sam — better known as Muhammad of Ghor — used Ghazna as his base after wresting it from the Ghaznavid dynasty in 1173, and these jitals were among the first coins struck under Ghurid authority at that mint. The leaded copper alloy was a deliberate cost-reduction measure, a pragmatic choice for a ruler perpetually funding military campaigns across the subcontinent.

His decisive defeat of the Rajput confederacy at the Second Battle of Tarain in 1192 opened the Gangetic plain to Ghurid expansion and created the administrative need for a Delhi mint issue. Muhammad was assassinated in 1206, leaving no heir — his generals divided the territory among themselves, founding what became the Delhi Sultanate.