Coins Of India - Bull And Horseman Coins And Some Variants

Another coin of Saif ud din Hasan Qurlugh with a little more details visible.
Please see the coin
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This one similar to that above.

One more to the same category.

This is a type-3 coin that belongs to the category coins of Narwar (along with "Chahatadeva" coins). This is an issue of "Malaya varman" who ruled around 1230-1234.AD.Alexander Cunningham explains this coin where Rajputs of Mewar are discussed.Chahatadeva was the ruler who followed Malayavarman according to him.




This coin bears the name of the ruler "Sri Malayavarma" in Nagari script and the date on the obverse. On the reverse, there is an extremely stylised horseman.

Here are two more Type-I coins from Kangra.
First one is with bull side obverse.
Obv. Recumbent bull facing left. Swastik symbol on jhula. Design symbol on the back. "(Sri) Apu(rvachandra)" above.
Rev: Crude Horseman facing right.

Recently I had a discussion on Kangra coins with Dr.Anthony Hilgrevood. He is an authority on coins.In his opinion, MI/001#001-b presented as an issue of Purvachandra here is an issue of of Rupachandra. He says that "sri" is written in various forms and that too in front of the horseman on the Rupachandra coins. In such case, curve on the lower part of the extreme left stroke of "sri" is what gives it an appearance of "A" and that is why it is read as "Aapurva". P.L Gupta, the eminent numismatist who documented a lot of coin hoards from Himachal has also not documented any Apurvachandra coins with name on the horseman side. He documents coins with name above the horseman and above the bull for Rupachandra. Taking these views into account, I wish to re-attribute the coin no.MI/001#001-b to Rupachandra.
We discussed on whether the real name of the issuer of "Apurvachandra" coins was "Purvachandra" or "Apurvachandra". Cunningham, based on the "vamsavali" (genealogical tree) says that his name must be Purvachandra. The chronology given by Cunningham cannot be relied upon because he presumes that each ruler reigned for fifteen years which need not be historically true. But for the names on the vamsavali I take him to be right. It is almost impossible to do a full verification of the Royal documents because they got destroyed in an earth quake at Kangra. Guptaji says that the chronology given by Cunningham is wrong, but he keeps quite about the different name that Cunningham suggested. Still he says there is ambiguity because some names like Apurvachandra, Kapachandra and Avatarachandra are not found in the vamsavali. He does not question the names suggested by Cunningham, and disagrees only with the order of succession and the chronology. Dr.Anthony's opinion is right in the sense that in the absence of a fully reliable document of the rulers' names, it is better for us to know them by the name they used to call themselves. Any way, this is a point requiring further research and discussions. I, while not convinced with the chronology of Cunningham's work, am inclined to go with the names he suggested for the rulers. If there is evidence to the contrary, I am happy to correct myself. I am sharing these views to ask our CC members to share any information they have about the Katoch rulers on this forum. Thanks.

One more type 1 coin from the Sind.This is an issue of Khalif Beg (AD.1224 :AH.621)who is believed to have been an officer of Jalal ud din Mingburnu.He ruled the area for a short while when his master fled from India.Bull is mostly off flan on this coin with only the anterior most parts of the fore legs and head visible. Parts of the Sarada script legend on obv in front of the recumbent bull facing left reads "Sri shal(ifa baga)".On the reverse, "sri hamir" will be there in front of the horseman, placed above and to the right of the head of the horse.
Ref:SS8, G&G.

Hello drnsreedhar,

Could you take a look at this coin for me please and hopefully verify my attribution...
I dug it out today just to refresh my readings of the legend as I thought it was just a common Samanta Deva Jital and wanted to acquire a Spalapati to go with it...so it wasn´t lonely...The legend didn´t fit... so I started searching your thread and it seems to fit exactly with Chahata Deva 1234-1255....Attributed to Iltutmish....Am I correct? It would be a pleasant surprise...

I bought it a couple of years ago for 2$ as a common Samanta Deva Jital but Chahata Deva (Iltutmish) seems to be much rarer? Is it?

Thanks in advance Paul