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Jital - Sharaf Beg Nandana mint
| Issuer | Sindh, Sultanate of |
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| Year | 1224 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse description | Bull and horseman type jital struck at the Nandana mint under Sharaf Beg. The obverse depicts a stylized bull standing in the central field, rendered in the crude, heavily worn hammered style characteristic of late Ghaznavid and early Sultanate-period coinage of the northwestern Indian subcontinent. The design reflects artistic conventions shared with contemporaneous Ghurid and Khwarazmian coinage traditions of the region. Peripheral legends in Arabic script appear around the central device, though heavily degraded on this example. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a stylized horseman or rider motif in the central field, consistent with the Bull and Horseman type attributed to the Nandana mint jitals of this period. The figure is rendered in a schematic, highly abstracted manner typical of hammered billon coinage of the early 13th-century Sindh Sultanate. Surrounding Arabic legends record the mint name and ruler's titles, though the striking is irregular and the legends are largely illegible due to the coarse flan and worn dies. |
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| Mintage | ND (1224) - Nandana |
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