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Jital - 'Ala al-din Muhammad Ghor horseman
| Issuer | Khwarazmian Empire (Khwarazmian dynasties) |
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| Year | 1200-1220 |
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| Value | 1 Jital (1⁄50) |
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| Obverse script | Arabic |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued during the reign of 'Ala al-Din Muhammad II, whose empire briefly stretched from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf before the Mongol invasions of 1219–1221 erased it entirely. The horseman type on these jitals derives from earlier Ghaznavid and Ghurid coinage conventions that had circulated across the eastern Islamic world for over a century — Muhammad II's mints absorbed the iconographic vocabulary of the dynasties he conquered and kept it in circulation without modification.
The empire collapsed so rapidly under Genghis Khan that many issues from this final decade never saw prolonged circulation in their intended territories.