ITEM #3037 Khwarizmshahs (Medieval Iran), ‘Ala al-Din Muhammad 596-617AH AE jital, Kurzuwan mint, Not Dated, Album1738, Tye 270, well-centered

Reign

AH 598-617/AD1200-1220

Denomination

AE jital

Date Struck

Not Dated

Mint

Kurzuwan

Obverse

The name and the title of the ruler "al-Sultan 'azam Ala al-Din va al-Dunya" around the margin. Part of mint name 'Kurzu' in the center.

Reverse

The other part of the mint name �wan� in the center. Around it, 'abul-fath Muhammad ibn al-Sultan'.

Weight

2.08 gr.

Diameter

21 mm

Reference

Album 1738, TYE 270

Grade

Good VF+ well-centered

Comments

In 1218AD Gengiz Khan sent his emissaries to see the shah in Samarqand.. Muhammad Shah executed the Mongol diplomats and sent back their entourage with their heads shaved in defiance of the emerging great power, and Genghis retaliated with an army of 200,000 men that crossed the Jaxartes in 1220 and sacked the cities of Samarkand and Bukhara. Muhammad's capital, followed in 1221. �Ala al-Din Muhammad fled and sought refuge throughout Khorasan province, but died of pleurisy on an island in the Caspian Sea some weeks later.