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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 2497192, member: 57364&quot;]Nice line-up ! Also nice to see new collector enthusiasm for this area.</p><p>There are in fact several Wikipedia pages which provide some information on the Kabul Shahi; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmana_Hindu_Shahis_of_Afghanistan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmana_Hindu_Shahis_of_Afghanistan" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmana_Hindu_Shahis_of_Afghanistan</a></p><p>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul_Shahi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul_Shahi" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul_Shahi</a> have some overlap, but are nice as an introductory reading.</p><p>Hope you will find that this series is not limited to the Hindi Shahi of Kabul. You can read the entire political history of the region between Kabul in Afghanistan and Delhi in India from these coins.</p><p>To show just a few:</p><p>These are two Tye#2 specimen, the earliest i have. The script on the horseman&#039;s side is in ancient Bactrian. The size and weight is a bit larger than the later standard;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]529350[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Around 870AD the Kabul area is overrun by the Saffarids. After this the Jitals under the name of Khudarayaka are issued. These are the first to feature Arab script on these coins. In front of the horseman is عدل,&nbsp; which means &quot;just&quot;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]529351[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Later on, the Ghaznavids come to the stage. They adopt the Jital metrology, but loose the horse, while the bull gets abstracted a bit over time.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]529352[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Gaznavids are replaced by the Ghorids:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]529353[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Ghorids loose the Afghan territory to the Khwarezm Shahs.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]529354[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But Ghorid rule persists in the Delhi Area where it forms the begin of the Turks dynasty of the Sultans of Delhi, which has replaced the former Hindu Raja Dynasty of Delhi.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]529355[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Between the first and the last is about 400 years)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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