s a s a n i a n  m i n t s

Updated February 5, 2007

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SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
LAM		Ram-Hormizd	Khuzistan

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
LD		Ray (Rayy)	Media/Northern District	Mochiri's RY
LDY

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
LHW		Roxvadh (?)	Khurasan (?)	Mochiri's RXW

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
LY		---	---	SNS 3

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
LYW		Rev-Ardashir	Khuzistan
KWN LYW

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
LYWARTHShT		---	---	SNS 3

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
MA		May (Masabadan)	Media

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
ML		Merv	Khurasan
MLW
MLWY

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
MLWVALT		Merv al-Rudh (?)	Khurasan (?)	TRUKVART; Peus 363, 5329

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
MY		Meshan	Southern Iraq/Northern District

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
NAH		uncertain	uncertain

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
NAL		Narmashir (?)	Kirman

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
NAT		uncertain site	Kirman

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
NY		at or near Nemavand	Media/Central District	Mitchiner's NB (uncertain)

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
PL		Furat-i-Meshan (?)	Southern Iraq/Southern District (?)	Album says probably not Furat-i-Meshan

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
PW		---	---	SNS 3

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
PWLGY		---	---	SNS 3

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
S		uncertain site	Media

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
SK		Zarang	Sistan
SKSTN

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
SML		Samarkand (?)	Khurasan (?)	From Mochiri; uncertain, Album says probably not Samarkand

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
ST		Istakhr (Persepolis)	Fars/Istakhr District

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
STHL		---	---	SNS 3

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
STL		---	---	Dinar of Vistahm; Res Orientales XVI, AV93

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
ShLK (?)		---	---	SNS 3; Varhran IV

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
ShY		Shiraz	Fars	Sellwood attributes ShY to Shiz in the Northwest

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
ShYLAC		---	---	SNS 3

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
TWS		Tus (?)	Khurasan	This may only be a blundered spelling of MLWY and ML, respectively
TW

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
WAC (?)		uncertain site	Al-Jazira

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
WH		Veh-Ardashir (Seleucia)	Central Iraq/Northern District	Mochiri's VH (Veh Ardashir), Mitchiner's VH (Veh Andew Shapur); Gobl's NH (Nahr-Tire)

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
WLC		unknown	unknown; not in the Caucasus	Peus 363, 5317 (as VLCh)

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
WYH		Veh-Kavad	Central Iraq/Southern District	Mochiri's NEH; Mitchiner's NIH (Nehavend)

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
WYHC		uncertain site	Fars or Central Iraq	Sears' Veh-az-Amid-Kavad (Arrajan) in Fars [based on Arab-Sasanian coins marked WYHC, struck between AH 67-73, which were almost certainly struck in Fars, and hoard data]; Mochiri's VSP (Visp Shad Xosrow); Mitchiner's NYHCh (near Ctesiphon)

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
YZ		Yazd	Fars/Yazd District	Gobl's ZR (Zarang)
YZD				Peus 363, 5314

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
ZL		Zarang (?)	Sistan	Kavad I examples in Mochiri's Arab-Sasanian Civil War Coinage (1987)
ZLN
ZLNG

SIGNATURE	PAHLAVI	CITY/DISTRICT	PROVINCE	NOTES
ZWZN		uncertain site(s)	Northern Provinces	Mochiri's ZOZNU (Zozan), also written GWGWN; according to Nikitin, this may mean "silver coin" and not be a mint signature. Known only for Hormazd IV.
ZWZWN
ZWZWNW