India, Islamic Sultanates, Bengal, Ghiyath al-Din 'Iwad, governor, AH.614-616 / AD 1217-1220, fractional tanka of fourty rati, struck in the name of Shams al-Din Iltutmish, Sultan of Dehli, uncertain mint, dated, AH.614 (AD 1217/8), man l. on horseback, holding mace, Shahada and AH date in outer margin, rev. al-sultan al-mu'azzam/shams al-dunya wa'l din/abu'l muzaffar iltutmish al-qutbi/nasir amir al-mu'minin, in four lines across field (CIS B11; cf. Rajgor Type 849 (for type)), areas of peripheral weakness, double struck, good very fine, clear AH date, very rare
*ex CNG, Triton XXIV, lot 1282.
(5000-6000 GBP)