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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DCH, post: 1950523, member: 8072&quot;]The mint name is located below the long horizontal line(striking snake) and above the date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Three mints will cover the majority of these coins:</p><p>Islambol and Constantinople----Turkey</p><p>Misr----Egypt</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantinople is easy to identify and the most common, it looks like two lower case letter b in the middle of a squiggly line.</p><p><br /></p><p>Misr is a line with a loop in it.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.vcoins.com/backoffice/upload/product_image/54/W/6/Wai4n3DYDd7CR8LweTS92jB7aM4566.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vcoins.com/backoffice/upload/product_image/54/W/6/Wai4n3DYDd7CR8LweTS92jB7aM4566.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.vcoins.com/backoffice/upload/product_image/54/W/6/Wai4n3DYDd7CR8LweTS92jB7aM4566.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Islambol--Hard to describe...<a href="http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mLiOicz5tqF5zejjKaeB5pg.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mLiOicz5tqF5zejjKaeB5pg.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mLiOicz5tqF5zejjKaeB5pg.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Dates:&nbsp; Most of these used ascencion dating, so there aren&#039;t many possibilities.&nbsp; These dates should cover most.</p><p>1099</p><p>1102</p><p>1106</p><p>1115</p><p>1143</p><p>1168</p><p>1171</p><p>1187</p><p>1203</p><p>1222</p><p>1223</p><p><br /></p><p>Regnal year is a numeral at the top of the date side, or is written as a word immediately left of the date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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