The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c18.79

c18.79

Earlier coins bear no mint name; two of Muizzuddin's copper issues, however, seem to indicate their place of origin but the reading is doubtful³. Iltutmish appears to have started the practice of inscribing the mint name on his *tankah*. One of his rare silver coins bears the vague name of *Biladul Hind*⁴; another, dated 616/1219, has been read as mentioning Gour, but the word looks more like Nagaur⁵. The earliest appearance of Delhi as a mint is on a *tankah* of 628/1230-1⁶. The reading of Lakhnauti on another of his silver pieces, dated 633/1235, is however, disputable⁷. A suppositions copper issue of the same monarch bears the name of Multan⁸. The earliest undoubted mention of Lakhnauti occurs in a *tankah* of Raziah⁹. Balban seems to have established a number of new mints; one of his copper pieces was minted at the ‘*Khitta*’ Sultanpur¹⁰. A silver *tankah* of his mentions a mint which has been tentatively read as Khitta Alwar¹.