KHWARAZMSHAHS,
'Alauddin Muhammad put together an empire that stretched from Iran to Pakistan, roughly the size of the eastern USA.  Full of himself, he stupidly picked a fight with the Mongol Chingis Khan, who promptly took away his empire.  Son Jalaluddin continued resisting when all was lost.  He went to Afghanistan and put together a coalition that defeated the Mongols, then promptly fell to internecine bickering, as Afghans are wont to do.  Chingis fell on them and drove Jalal eastward to the Indus River in Pakistan.  Jalal kept fighting.  Down to a few fighters, he threw the treasury in the river, drowned the women, and with his men plunged into the river, making it safely to the other side.  Chingis said to his own sons "Such a son must a father have."  Jalal had a successful career in India as a marauding potentate before departing westward to Iraq for more therapeutic warfare, on which venture he died in 1231.

274-12. KHWAREZMSHAH, Alauddin Muhammad, 1200-20, billon jital,T-208.2 haloed horseman L, Taliqan, nice F $51.00 sold 4/20/2011
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274-13. KHWAREZMSHAH, Alauddin Muhammad, 1200-20, billon jital, T-212v, horseman with spear L, Shafurqan, aF $33.00 sold 4/20/2011
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KHWAREZMSHAH, Jalaluddin Mangubarni, 1220-24, billon jital, bull / legend, Kurraman mint, cf. T-292.1/308.1, this obv. & rev. pair not in Tye, F-VF $35.50 sold 3/12/2018
 
 
 
 
 

Jalaluddin Mangubarni, 1220-24, billon jital, Tulak mint, legends around circle, T-312.1a, F $95.00 sold 3/12/2018
 
 







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