History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c14.s3.26

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Economic and political factors led to deterioration in the system of coinage, affecting seriously its typological, metrological, and technological aspects. The situation was quite chaotic when the power of Islam became firmly established as the most dominant political authority in the subcontinent in the 13th century A.D. However the conditions of minting became, to some extent, improved in the next few centuries, particularly in the age of the early Great Mughals.¹⁷