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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.
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.
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.
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.
