Uncover details about Coins in Medieval India

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Uncover details about Coins in Medieval India
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• The coming of the Medieval Period in India meant
  that Indian coinage had established a new novel
  pattern.
• The illustration of figures is largely plain in
  Islam. Thus, like the other coinage of the
  Islamic world, Indian coins too, have a few
  outstanding exceptions, carried inscriptions on
  both sides in Arabic or Persian script.
• In Islam, the inscribing of the ruler's name on
  the coins was accompanied with elegance. This
  license, with the reading of his name in the
  khutba (public prayer) signified the definite
  assuming of legal power by him.

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• Medieval Indian era brought a series of barbaric,
  invading sinister rulers from Persia, Arab and
  Turkey, precisely by Mahmud of Ghazni and
  Muhammad Ghori.
• The Arabs had conquered Sindh in 712 A.D. and
  ruled it as a province of the Caliphate. By 9th
  century A.D., provincial governors publically
  declared an independent rule and also begun to
  make their own coins.
• Medieval Indian coins and art of casting them had
  received its first stamp under the brutal and
  ruthless Mahmud of Ghazni.

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• The arrival of Turkish Sultans of Delhi in the
  12th century got a much-needed break, with the
  past and the still-subsisting motifs. However,
  they were replaced by Islamic tools.
• Coins in Medieval India created their own path of
  movement under major metamorphoses.
• The unit of account came to be strengthened and
  was referred as the 'tanka' with the 'jittals' as
  the smaller value coins.
• A standardisation followed after the Delhi
  Sultanate. This period was good as it resulted in
  substantial expansion of money. Coins were cast
  and moulded in gold, silver and copper.

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• When the Lodhi Dynasty arrived, coins were
  moulded absolutely of copper and billon.
• Even in the provinces, the Bengal Sultans, the
  Jaunpur Sultans, the Bahamanis of the Deccan, the
  Sultans of Malwa, the Sultans of Gujarat, etc.
  had begun to create coins.
• But, the picture down South was totally
  different, the Vijayanagara Empire had evolved a
  coinage of unique metrology and design, which
  remained standard in the region and influence
  coin designing up to the 19th century. These were
  the few of Medieval Coins of India.