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a r a b - s a s a n i a n m i n t s
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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 |
TRANSLITERATION | PAHLAVI |
a |
![](sp/A.jpg) |
l |
![](sp/R.jpg) |
b |
![](sp/B.jpg) |
m |
![](sp/M.jpg) |
g |
![](sp/G.jpg) |
n |
![](sp/N.jpg) |
![](sp/N_2.jpg) |
d |
![](sp/D.jpg) |
![](sp/D_2.jpg) |
s |
![](sp/S.jpg) |
u, v, w |
![](sp/W.jpg) |
p, f |
![](sp/P.jpg) |
z |
![](sp/Z.jpg) |
ts, ch |
![](sp/Ch.jpg) |
kh, h |
![](sp/H.jpg) |
![](sp/H_2.jpg) |
r |
![](sp/R.jpg) |
![](sp/R_2.jpg) |
![](sp/R_3.jpg) |
i, y |
![](sp/Y.jpg) |
![](sp/Y_2.jpg) |
sh |
![](sp/Sh.jpg) |
k |
![](sp/K.jpg) |
![](sp/K_2.jpg) |
t |
![](sp/T.jpg) |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AFZWTK |
![](sp/AFZWTK.jpg) |
unknown |
Southern Iraq (?) |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AHM |
![](sp/AHM.jpg) |
Hamadan |
Kufan prefecture/Media |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AKWLA |
![](sp/AKWLA.jpg) |
al-Kufa |
Kufan prefecture/Central Iraq |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
ANBYL |
![](sp/ANBYL.jpg) |
Anbir |
Khurasan/Juzjan District |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
ANWAT |
![](sp/ANWAT.jpg) |
unlocated |
Kirman |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
APL |
![](sp/APL.jpg) |
Abarshahr |
Khurasan |
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APLSh |
![](sp/APLSh.jpg) |
APLShT |
![](sp/APLShT.jpg) |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
ART |
![](sp/ART.jpg) |
Ardashir-Khurra |
Fars/Ardashir-Khurra District |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AW |
![](sp/AW.jpg) |
Ahwaz/at or near Hormizd-Ardashir |
Khuzistan |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AY |
![](sp/AY.jpg) |
at or near Eran-khvarrah-Shapur |
Khuzistan |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AYPTAK (SYPTAK) |
![](sp/AYPTAK.jpg) |
unknown |
Khurasan |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AYL |
![](sp/AYL.jpg) |
unknown |
Central Iraq or Northwestern Iran |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
AYLAN |
![](sp/AYLAN.jpg) |
at or near Eran-asan-kar-Kavad (Hulwan) |
Media/Western District |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BBA |
![](sp/BBA.jpg) |
Court Mint |
[itinerant] |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BH |
![](sp/BH.jpg) |
uncertain |
uncertain |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BCLA |
![](sp/BCLA.jpg) |
al-Basra |
Southern Iraq |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BN |
![](sp/BN.jpg) |
uncertain |
Kirman |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BSh |
![](sp/BSh.jpg) |
uncertain |
uncertain |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BST |
![](sp/BST.jpg) |
Bust |
Sistan |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BYN (BYW) |
![](sp/BYN.jpg) |
unknown |
Kufan prefecture |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
BYSh |
![](sp/BYSh.jpg) |
Bishapur |
Fars/Bishapur District |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
DA |
![](sp/DA.jpg) |
Darabgird |
Fars |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
DA+P |
![](sp/DA-P.jpg) |
Fasa |
Fars/Darabjird District |
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DAP |
![](sp/DAP.jpg) |
DP |
![](sp/DP.jpg) |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
DA+G |
![](sp/DA-G.jpg) |
Jahrum |
Fars/Darabjird District |
|
DA+GH |
![](sp/DA-GH.jpg) |
DA+GALWM |
![](sp/DA-GALWM.jpg) |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
DA-ShW |
![](sp/DA-ShW.jpg) |
|
Fars |
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SIGNATURE | ARABIC | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
Dimashq |
![](sp/DMSQ.jpg) |
Dimashq |
|
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
DSh |
![](sp/DSh.jpg) |
Dasht Maysan |
Southern Iraq |
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DShT |
![](sp/DShT.jpg) |
DShTW (DShTY) |
![](sp/DShTW.jpg) |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
DL |
![](sp/DL.jpg) |
unknown |
unknown |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
FSA |
![](sp/FSA.jpg) |
Fasa |
Fars/Darabjird District |
AE only |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
GALWM |
![](sp/GALWM.jpg) |
Jahrum |
Fars/Darabjird District |
AE only |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
GD |
![](sp/GD.jpg) |
Gay (Jayy) |
Kufan prefecture/Media |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
GLM |
![](sp/GLM_1.jpg) |
unlocated |
Kirman |
Sears says possibly Bamm |
![](sp/GLM_2.jpg) |
SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
GLM-KLMAN |
![](sp/GLM-KLMAN.jpg) |
unlocated |
Kirman |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
GW |
![](sp/GW.jpg) |
Qumm (?) |
Kufan prefecture/Media |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
GWL |
![](sp/GWL.jpg) |
Jur (?) |
Ardashir Khurra district |
AE only |
GWBL |
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SIGNATURE | PAHLAVI | CITY/DISTRICT |
PROVINCE | NOTES |
GY |
![](sp/GY.jpg) |
Giruft |
Kirman |
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