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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 25462832, member: 99456&quot;]Here is a coin of Mohammad bin Tughluq - a ruler who was described this way by a contemporary :</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Sultan Muhammad planned in his own breast three or four projects by which the whole of the habitable world was to be brought under the rule of his servants, but he never talked over these projects with any of his councilors and friends. Whatever he conceived he considered to be good, but in promulgating and enforcing his schemes he lost his hold upon the territories possessed, disgusted his people, and emptied his treasury.&quot;</p><p>- Ziauddin Barani, &quot;<a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458719/page/n245/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458719/page/n245/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi</a>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The watercolor is a detail from a 19th century image of Muhammad bin Tughluq&#039;s court. The sultan seated in the middle. (<a href="https://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/sjm_hyd-XXIII-239-50389" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/sjm_hyd-XXIII-239-50389" rel="nofollow">Source: Public Domain image</a>)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>More on this coin and other coins from the Tughluq dynasty can be found in my notes:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1629975[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Post your coins of the Tughluq dynasty (or anything else you find interesting or entertaining).</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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