Shahi Jital Coin,Silver,8th to 10th Century A.D HORSEMAN/ BULL ,India, Pakistan

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Shahi Jital Coin,Silver,8th to 10th Century A.D HORSEMAN/ BULL ,India, Pakista
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SHAHI JITAL IN SILVER CA. 8TH - 10TH AD 'SILVER-HORSEMAN/ BULL About 750 A.D. the Shahi dynasty issued coins showing a Brahma bull on one side and a horseman on the other side. Over the next 500 years many rulers in an area encompassing what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwest India issued coins based on this one design. As time went on, the design tended to become more abstract and the original images harder to find. Yet five hundred years after the first coinage, one still finds abstract designs that upon careful inspection still show that they are derived from the original Shahi coinage. The Shahi originals are made of good silver while many of the later designs are made of billon or copper. These coins are all referred to as jitals, as opposed to a specific denomination, since their value varied so widely over the centuries. Interestingly these designs were used by both Muslim and Hindu rulers. The original coins weighed 4.3 grams, but through time the weight drifted downward. Soon many issues appeared with the bull on one side and Persian script on the reverse.
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