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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Islamic| > IS93640
Great Mongols, Genghis Khan (Chingiz Khan), 1206 - 1227 A.D.
|Islamic|, |Great| |Mongols,| |Genghis| |Khan| |(Chingiz| |Khan),| |1206| |-| |1227| |A.D.|, Although the Khan is not named on the obverse, Album notes, "This type is the only coin that is reasonably common and can be securely assigned to the lifetime of Genghis Kahn. The type is believed to have been struck 618-619 [AH] / 1221, during the Mongol chase of Mangubarni to the Indus River, when a Mongol military base was established at or near Ghazna." Ghazni, historically known as Ghaznin or Ghazna, is a city in central Afghanistan for thousands of years strategically located along the main road between Kabul and Kandahar.
IS93640. Billon jital, Tye Jitals 329, Album 1969, SICA 9 1008, aVF, porous, earthen deposits, off center, Ghazna (Ghazni, Afganistan) mint, weight 4.160g, maximum diameter 16.8mm, die axis 180o, undated, c. 1221 A.D.; obverse al-khaqan / al-'adil / al-a'zam (the Just Supreme Khan); reverse name and title of the Abbasid caliph al-Nasir; from the Errett Bishop Collection; SOLD











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