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Message:: [QUOTE="dltsrq, post: 8324615, member: 75482"]I can't add very much. The right-hand image of the op seems to imitate the kalima. The word across the center is with reasonable certainty Allah (الله). The line above Allah has several crossed lines, resembling لا. The kalima begins لا اله الا ("no god but"). The third line of the kalima is typically وحده ("alone"). The third line of the op has the same number of letters. Could it be وحده? Maybe, maybe not. It could just as easily be a name or other stand-alone. I will go out on a limb, however, and suggest the inscription is intended as: لا اله الااللهوحده One possibility for the opposite side is an attempt to continue the kalima in typical fashion with Muhammad / rassul / Allah ("Muhammad is the prophet of Allah") but it's admittedly a stretch: محمدرسولالله It could also be a blundered attempt at a name and/or title. Album lists fractional gold dinars for many of the Taifas, often with the off-putting "illegible" as part of the description. [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] If I read you correctly, you are using the first edition of Album's 'Checklist'. The much-expanded third edition is available as a free .pdf download at the author's website. There have never been plates, unfortunately, though Steve considered the idea for the third edition.[/QUOTE]