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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4502625, member: 19463&quot;]If you are going to mention him, you need to show coins.&nbsp; Ala-ud-Din Muhammed Khalji suffers in the eyes of collectors compared to Nero because his coins lack his pretty face and types that show the history of his day.&nbsp; In this regard, Nero is a real leader.&nbsp; I have three coins of Ala-ud-Din Muhammed Khalji.&nbsp; They were selected carefully from a large group I saw in 2010 because the small part of the legend that made it on the flan included the year date (703, 698 and 700, I believe).&nbsp; Dies were considerably larger than flans so many coins lacked the date.&nbsp; I probably should have bought some others to illustrate the rest of the legend but I did not.&nbsp; What I know about these came from a book on jitals by some guy named Tye.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; The feature that attracted me to them was the unusual way the denominations were made.&nbsp; The first coin below was the same size and weight of the other two but was struck from an alloy three times as rich in silver as the other two making it a coin of six gani while the others were two gani.&nbsp; I have never been particularly interested in weight standards preferring to collect types and history but this seemed a novel way of avoiding having coins too large or too small for daily use.[ATTACH=full]1116588[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116589[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1116590[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Update:&nbsp; This rather reminds me of the way people in the US rejected dollar coins saying they looked too much like quarters.&nbsp; I believe the big difference was that the President of the United States could not tell people that the WILL!!! accept the coins and learn to use them OR ELSE!&nbsp; In this way Ala-ud-Din Muhammed Khalji was a leader.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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