Horseman right, Sri-Hamira ("Lord Amir") in Nagari above, star below / Al-sultan al-mu'azzam abu'l fath yildiz al-sultan in a few lines. 15mm, 3.28 grams. Lahore mint, "The Coins of the Indian Sultanates" D26; Tye #201.1

Taj al-Din Yildiz (r. 1206–1215 CE) was a prominent Turkic military commander and one of the senior mamluks (and slave-generals) of the Ghurid ruler Muʿizz al-Dīn Muhammad ibn Sām (Muhammad of Ghor). After his master’s assassination in 1206, Yildiz established himself in Ghazni and sought to inherit the Ghurid domains in northern India and Afghanistan. He clashed with other Ghurid successors and with the newly rising powers of the Delhi Sultanate and the Khwarazmian Empire. In 1215, he was defeated and captured by Shams al-Din Iltutmish of Delhi, who had him executed soon afterward. Though his rule was short-lived, Yildiz is remembered as one of the transitional figures whose struggles marked the fragmentation of the Ghurid Empire and the rise of the Delhi Sultanate as the dominant power in northern India.