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Message:: [QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2497302, member: 57364"]The Jitals form one of my focus areas for several reasons: It is a bit outside the mainstream categories. They very nicely illustrate the intrigueing medieval history of this part of the world. And, as not many people are interested in these, very rare specimen can come very cheap. Most of my coins have cost between 2 and 5 euros a piece, only a handfull more than 15. But you have to be able to pick them from between a lot of very common low quality specimen. One of the questions to be answered is the relation between the copper and billon coin types. Here is one of the most common copper lion/elephant types. It is in the name of Vakka Deva. Interesting thing is that there are no Vakka Deva silvers:[ATTACH=full]529384[/ATTACH] There are also still some things to be discovered. The coin below is a Tye#105 type issued under Ghaznavid ruler Masud III (1099-1115). Tye describes the text above the bull as "Sri Samanta Deva". While true for some subtypes, this one clearly reads "Sri Sultana Deva", which is an unpublished legend.[ATTACH=full]529385[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]