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.

TRANSLITERATION PAHLAVI TRANSLITERATIONPAHLAVI
a l
b m
g n
d s
u, v, w p, f
z ts, ch
kh, h r
i, y sh
k t


SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AFZWTK unknown Southern Iraq (?)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AHM Hamadan Kufan prefecture/Media

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AKWLA al-Kufa Kufan prefecture/Central Iraq

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
ANBYL Anbir Khurasan/Juzjan District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
ANWAT unlocated Kirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
APL Abarshahr Khurasan
APLSh
APLShT

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
ART Ardashir-Khurra Fars/Ardashir-Khurra District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AW Ahwaz/at or near Hormizd-Ardashir Khuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AY at or near Eran-khvarrah-Shapur Khuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AYPTAK (SYPTAK) unknown Khurasan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AYL unknown Central Iraq or Northwestern Iran

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
AYLAN at or near Eran-asan-kar-Kavad (Hulwan) Media/Western District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BBA Court Mint [itinerant]

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BH uncertain uncertain

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BCLA al-Basra Southern Iraq

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BN uncertain Kirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BSh uncertain uncertain

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BST Bust Sistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BYN (BYW) unknown Kufan prefecture

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
BYSh Bishapur Fars/Bishapur District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DA Darabgird Fars

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DA+P Fasa Fars/Darabjird District
DAP
DP

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DA+G Jahrum Fars/Darabjird District
DA+GH
DA+GALWM

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DA-ShW Fars

SIGNATUREARABICCITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
Dimashq Dimashq

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DSh Dasht Maysan Southern Iraq
DShT
DShTW (DShTY)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
DL unknown unknown

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
FSA Fasa Fars/Darabjird District AE only

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GALWM Jahrum Fars/Darabjird District AE only

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GD Gay (Jayy) Kufan prefecture/Media

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GLM unlocated Kirman Sears says possibly Bamm

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GLM-KLMAN unlocated Kirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GW Qumm (?) Kufan prefecture/Media

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GWL Jur (?) Ardashir Khurra district AE only
GWBL

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICT PROVINCENOTES
GY Giruft Kirman 



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T. K. Mallon-McCorgray, July 1996

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