
Crude horseman left, holding a spear / Al-Sultan /Al-Azam/Muhammed bin Sam in three lines. 15mm, 3.15 grams. NM (mint of Lahore). Tye #182.
A nice billon coin from the famous Muslim Ghorid conqueror of Delhi.
The Delhi Sultanate, or Sulthanath-e-Hind/Sulthanath-e-Dilli refers to the various dynasties that ruled in India from 1210 to 1526. Several Turko-Afghan dynasties ruled from Delhi: the Slave dynasty (1206-90), the Khilji dynasty (1290-1320), the Tughlaq dynasty (1320-1413), the Sayyid dynasty (1414-51), and the Lodi (1451-1526).