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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;THCoins, post: 3443732, member: 57364&quot;]Sorry to hear about your medical issues. Hope your recovery will allow you plenty of time for new research.</p><p>This category of coins is probably more complex than it seems at first sight. The Tye Jital catalog still is the best reference. It does however, not show all subtypes and the distinction between types and subtypes may sometimes be not to straight forward.</p><p>I would not call the openingpost coin a Tye#228.2 type. The arrangement of the text is a bit different, but more important is that there&#039;s a horizontal stick between the legs of the elephant which is absent in Tye#228.2. I would rather call it Tye#228.3 or 229, where the difference between the two is not so clear in the Jitals catalog. The stick between the elephant legs may not just be a detail. It could have had a symbolic meaning: &quot;I have shackled the Elephant&quot;. Where the elephant could signify both the Ghorids and al-Hind, the west part of India.</p><p>Here&#039;s a typical Tye#228.1:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]914421[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ed&#039;s attribution is a bit of a mix-up. The Tye#231 and text transcription are correct. But therefore, it is not Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad b. Sam.</p><p>Here another Tye#231 type with some essential text elements a bit clearer.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]914424[/ATTACH]</p><p>In the second textline at the left, there&#039;s something looking like &quot;V_C&quot;. That&#039;s &quot; &#039;Ala&quot;.</p><p>If you see this, it is a coin issued either by Ghorid Mu&#039;izz-ud-din Muhammad bin Sam, or Khwarezmshah &#039;Ala-ud-Din Muhammad. &quot;Ghiyath&quot; looks quite similar to &quot; &#039;Ala&quot; but never has the &quot;V&quot; shape.</p><p>To distinguish between a Ghorid and Khwarezm issue there is a consensus rule among researchers. If the last line reads &quot;Muhammad bin Sam&quot; it is definitely Ghorid. If the last line reads &quot;Muhammad bin Sultan&quot; it is the Khwarezmshah.</p><p>So this also is a Khwarezmshah Jital.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one below is a Ghorid Ghiyath al-Din elephant from Kurzuwan (Tye#140.2). This also has the mintname at the top of the text side.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]914426[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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