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Jital - Taj al-Din Yildiz Ghorid of Ghazna / Kurraman mint
| Issuer | Ghurid dynasty |
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| Year | 1206-1215 |
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| Currency | Jital (879-1215) |
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| Obverse description | Humped bull (zebu) depicted in profile facing right, rendered in the schematic Indo-Muslim style inherited from earlier Hindu-Shahi coinage. The animal's characteristic dewlap and hump are discernible despite the crude hammered strike. A dotted border encircles the central device, and traces of Nagari or decorative legend appear in the upper field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Taj al-Din Yildiz was a Turkic slave-general who inherited Ghazna from the Ghurid sultan Mu'izz al-Din after the latter's assassination in 1206, ruling a shrinking domain under constant pressure from the expanding Khwarazmian empire to the west. He was decisively defeated by Ala ad-Din Muhammad of Khwarezm at Ghazna in 1215, effectively ending Ghurid control of the region entirely. Kurraman, a secondary mint in this network, struck jitals through these final turbulent years of the dynasty's Afghan heartland.