a r a b - s a s a n i a n  m i n t s


Updated August, 2006


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A compendium of attributions from Album, Sears, Kolesnikov, Gaube, Goodwin, Mochiri, Gobl, Mitchiner and Paruck;
many identifications are preliminary and/or questionable.

Gaube = Heinz Gaube, Arabosasanidische Numismatik, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig (1973)
Gobl SN = Robert Gobl, Sasanian Numismatics, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig (1971)
Kolesnikov = A. I. Kolesnikov, Deneshnoe Chozaystvo v Irane v VII Veke, Moscow (1998)
Mitchiner ACW = Michael Mitchiner, Oriental Coins, the Ancient and Classical World, Hawkins Publications, London (1978)
Mochiri ENIS II = Malek Iradj Mochiri, Etude De Numismatique Iranienne sous les Sassanides Et Arabe-Sassanides, Tome II, Teheran (1983)
Paruck SC = F. D. J. Paruck, Sasanian Coins, Bombay (1924)
Sears MHI = Stuart D. Sears, A Monetary History of Iraq and Iran, CA. CE 500 to 750, University of Chicago, Chicago (1997)
SICA Vol. 1 = Stephen Album and Tony Goodwin, Sylloge of Islamic Coins In the Ashmolean, Volume 1: The Pre-Reform Coinage of the Early Islamic Period Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2002)


PAHLAVI ALPHABET

Pahlavi (Middle Persian) is read from right to left. Many letterforms are similar: B and Y; R and L; D and K; G and Z; U, V, W and N.

TRANSLITERATIONPAHLAVITRANSLITERATIONPAHLAVI
al
bm
gn
ds
u, v, wp, f
zts, ch
kh, hr
i, ysh
kt


SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AFZWTKunknownSouthern Iraq (?)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AHMHamadanKufan prefecture/Media

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AKWLAal-KufaKufan prefecture/Central Iraq

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ANBYLAnbirKhurasan/Juzjan District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ANWATunlocatedKirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
APLAbarshahrKhurasan
APLSh
APLShT

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ARTArdashir-KhurraFars/Ardashir-Khurra District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AWAhwaz/at or near Hormizd-ArdashirKhuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYat or near Eran-khvarrah-ShapurKhuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYPTAK (SYPTAK)unknownKhurasan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYLunknownCentral Iraq or Northwestern Iran

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYLANat or near Eran-asan-kar-Kavad (Hulwan)Media/Western District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BBACourt Mint[itinerant]

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BHuncertainuncertain

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BCLAal-BasraSouthern Iraq

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BNuncertainKirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BShuncertainuncertain

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BSTBustSistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYN (BYW)unknownKufan prefecture

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYShBishapurFars/Bishapur District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DADarabgirdFars

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DA+PFasaFars/Darabjird District
DAP
DP

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DA+GJahrumFars/Darabjird District
DA+GH
DA+GALWM

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DA-ShWFars

SIGNATUREARABICCITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DimashqDimashq

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DShDasht MaysanSouthern Iraq
DShT
DShTW (DShTY)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DLunknownunknown

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
FSAFasaFars/Darabjird DistrictAE only

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GALWMJahrumFars/Darabjird DistrictAE only

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GDGay (Jayy)Kufan prefecture/Media

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GLMunlocatedKirmanSears says possibly Bamm

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GLM-KLMANunlocatedKirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GWQumm (?)Kufan prefecture/Media

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GWLJur (?)Ardashir Khurra districtAE only
GWBL

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GYGiruftKirman



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