Coinage of the Delhi Sultanates

Here is another ex: Baldwins Paul Stevens Collection

AV Tanka 11.02g. Hadrat Dehli Mint "fi'ahd type" no idea what that means?????
Mohammed III ben Tughluq 1324-51 mint state

 

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"In the time of"?
http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=26118.5;wap2

 

Almost, Rudrasena, son of Rudrasimha.
I hope you all are not to much deterred by all these strange languages. It is not that hard, and gives much satisfaction. Look at me, i even learned English !

 

I know its the principality of Samitan, that is the tamgha. The obverse script is Sogdian, a close relative to Farsi. Its all consonants, no vowels. I have never tried to translate the coin, but there are sogdian alphabets out there on the net.

 

Thank you! I am not going to chase down the inscription.

Rather, I am just gonna believe that since it is from the Silk Road that it says:
"Eat at Rosie's Bar & Grill! And the Beer is Cheap!"

 

To add just one Delhi Sultans coin, i chose this one:

Raziya Sultana, Daughter of Iltutmish. Only woman to ever rule the Sultanate of Delhi. Tye#393:

 

This one, too?

 

Wasn't she pretty much the only woman to ever rule an Islamic kingdom, anywhere?

 

There were about a dozen female Islamic rulers in history, so indeed not many.
@dougsmit : Yes, this one was minted in 130SE=208 AD.

 

崇宁重宝

(Just testing if I can post Chinese characters.)

 

How do you post them here? I have tried retrograde, greek, chinese, etc. with no luck...

 

I just copied them from another site and pasted.

 

Hmmm. I have tried that. Will try again in future. Thanks!

 

This reminds me of people who buy T shirts with foreign (to them) words not knowing what they mean. Dangerous.
我很蠢

 

Yeah, I know someone who got a tattoo of Chinese characters only to find out later that it translated to "Stinky Pig". Personally I would never get a tattoo in a foreign language without checking separately with two or three native speakers what it meant....let me rephrase that, I would never get a tattoo, period!

 

Worse than the T shirts are tattoos.



I posted the characters on my cash coin, which Google translate spits out as Chongning treasures, but I know Chong has connotations of worship and Ning is about serenity, so I'm going with "Chill out, you've got the big money, praise Jesus!"

崇宁重宝

 

Mmmm, I love salt beef

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiggs_dinner

... crap, I can do without

 

When I was in Japana about 10 yrs ago - I saw many a HS aged kids with shirts written in English with sayings that were jiberish. Like Horse lunch mega flex zoro.

As well I was sitting in a breakfast joint on the bottom floor of a corporate building at 6:30 am while they blasted Big Pun .... "I'm not a playa' , I just "Crush" alot" ! the uncensored version. Strange folks.

 

In hind site it was not as bad as the NWA in the elevator.

 

I just discovered I own a coin that's a die match to JA's Isn't that funny?