Crusader coin - id help

[Templar09]

Can someone help to ID this nice coin? I think its crusader or byzantine.

Regards

 

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[Gunner]

Hi Templar,
Nice find. I'd say well past the Byzantine Era. My guess would be Medieval/Crusader as you think. A little beyond the scope of my area of knowledge; however, I will try to pin down a good attribution for you.

Gunner

 

[DJ_Quinn]

Templar, what's the background on where/how it was found?

 

[Mackaydon]

Templar:
Here are my guesses:
The cross appears either Italian or French. I'll choose French for what I see on the coin's obverse; the letters that seem to read...RISL........
There is an area in Normandy, France called Risle. Montfort (of Crusader fame) was from this area. A castle in Palestine, in the Crusader Kingdom of Arce, is still named after Montfort. I'd stay on that research path if I didn't have to first find a way to pay my late rent.
Don..

 

[Templar09]

I cant find any info so far about this one, no such image on coin, i have checked every crusader coin i find on the net. I have 5 more and id-ed only one. I dug them during my vacations in Greece.

Regards

 

[Mackaydon]

Templar:
Would you like to post the pics of those other coins and let us have a go at ID-ing them?
Actually, if we could ID one, it might lead to more easily ID-ing the others.
"Dug them in Greece..." is interesting in its own right: Well done.
Don.....

 

[Templar09]

I will post all of them. I just need a day light to shot some quality pictures...

 

[Mackaydon]

Templar:
That same cross pattern is also found on the reverse of an Edward l (English) "Jeton", 1272-1307.
Don.......