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« Last post by Jan P on Yesterday at 07:21:10 am »
Hello Trudy,
The answer to your question, I do not know.
But I assume the "Jitals" of the Khwarezm Shahs were a following up of the Jitals of the Hindu Shahis, de famous Horseman & Bull Jitals.
One could expect a bull on a hindu coin, as there are religious reasons to. The bull Nandi was the mount of Shiva and in India the Nandi temples and shrines are countless.
With their arabic script, I doubt the Khwarezm Shahs had any religious reasons to put Nandi on their coins. Maybe the bull is just there to mark the coin as a "Jital".