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India Jital - Please Help With ID - Item B

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I got a large bulk lot and have a few that I'd greatly appreciate your help with identifying. I'll start with A and proceed along the alphabet as I post each of them.

Item B 3.4g 14.7mm

India-Jital---Please-Help-With-ID---Item-B
India-Jital---Please-Help-With-ID---Item-B

Edited to add weight and diameter and update title.
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03/26/2022 8:39 pm
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If you are going to post ancient coins, please include diameter and weight.
This is sometimes required to help with the ID
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I agree with JimmyD's advice - all ID requests should include the weight to the nearest tenth of a gram and diameter to the nearest millimeter.
Here are the guidelines for posting: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic71935.html

Having said that, it can be said that this coin an example of the famous "bull & horseman" billon jital from northern historical India (including parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan). Millions of these were made, generally between 900-1300 AD, by numerous rulers, in dozens of varieties. It is often difficult to determine the variety. Here are a few good sources of information.

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bh.html

http://goccf.com/t/267786

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/in...at=y&ct=coin

Robert Tye's book Jitals is also a great resource. It's available as a free .pdf download (with registration) from https://www.academia.edu/356700/Jitals

With the coin in hand it might be possible for you to determine the variety.
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Excellent! Thanks! That's certainly the general type.

I've got Tye's book on metrology which is great, but was somehow unaware of the one on jitals. Thanks for that reference.

Your guidance was a huge help, but even after going through Mitchiner's book and online resources I've yet to nail down the precise issue. If anyone has any further thoughts I'd be most grateful. Thanks again to all.
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