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A compendium of attributions from Album, Gobl, Gyselen, Kolesnikov, Mitchiner, Mochiri, Paruck, Schindel and Sears; many identifications are preliminary and/or questionable.
Album SICA I = 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) Gobl SN = Robert Gobl, Sasanian Numismatics, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Braunschweig (1971) Gyselen 2004 = Rika Gyselen, New Evidence For Sasanian Numismatics, Res Orientales XVI, Bures-sur- Yvette (2004) 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) Schindel SNS 3 = Nikolaus Schindel, Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum: Volume 3, Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien (2004)
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 l
b m
g n
d s
u, v, w p, f
z ts, ch
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kh, h r
i, y sh
k t
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A uncertain site Media
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AH unknown unknown KWN AH SNS 3; Varhran IV
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Media/Central Hamadan SNS 3; KWN AHM District
Varhran IV
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SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Mitchiner lists AR for AL unknown unknown both Armenia and Fars
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not in the Caucasus, Mitchiner's ALM unknown Khurasan or Sistan Armenia
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AM Amul (?) Khurasan
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APL Abarshahr Khurasan AP
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Ardashir- ART Ardashir-Khurra Khurra District
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ART(H)Sh(TR)
------SNS 3
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AS uncertain site Khuzistan
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ASP Spahan (Isfahan) Media SPHAN
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Sears: may be Atrapatan blundered ST; AT Adurbadagan (?) (Azerbaijan) probably not (?) Adurbadagan
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Mochiri's AO/AOH; AW at or near Hormizd- Khuzistan Mitchiner's
Ardashir AU/AUH AWH
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at or near Eran- Mitchiner's AI or
AY Khuzistan khvarrah-Shapur AB; Gobl's AB
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Mitchiner's AIR Central Iraq or AYL unknown (Airan Khurra Northwestern Iran Shapuhr)
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SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Mitchiner's AIRA AYLA unknown unknown (Airan Khurra Shapuhr)
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Mitchiner's at or near Eran-asan- Media/Western AIRAN (Airan AYLAN
kar-Kavad (Hulwan) District Khurra Shapuhr)
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BBA Mitchiner's BKhA Court Mint [itinerant] (Balkh); Mochiri's KWN BBA BLX (Balkh)
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Mochiri's BXL BHL Balkh Khurasan (Balkh); Schindel's GHL
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SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Sears' Veh-Ardashir; Mochiri's and BN uncertain Kirman Mitchiner's GN (Gondishapur)
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Peus BST Bust Sistan 363, 5313
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BShHP ------SNS 3 BShHPW
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BWB ------SNS 3
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SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES not in Kirman, BYN (?) unknown Khurasan or Sistan
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Fars/Bishapur BYSh Bishapur District
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BYShHPW ------SNS 3
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BYST ------SNS 3
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From a unique coin of CACW Chach (?) Khurasan (?) Hormazd IV, year 6, in Mochiri; who knows...
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DA
Peus 363, 5341 Fars/Darabgird Darabgird (Khusro II, year DAL District 25); this may be
engraver error for NAL
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DALAPKR ------SNS 3
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Mitchiner's Darabgird; DL unknown unknown
Mochiri's KR
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DYNAW
DYNAS uncertain/Dinavar Gobl has this mint Media (?) (?) marked as Rayy DYNAT
DYN
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES A district of Media/Southern Isfahan; GD Gay (Jayy) District Mitchiner's GI; Mochiri's GY
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Sears says possibly GLM unlocated Kirman Bamm
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GNCKL Ganjak-Chez (?) Northern Provinces Peus 363, 5311 GNC
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SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Mitchiner's GU; at or near Goyman GW Media Mochiri's GO (?) (Gorgan)
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES GWD uncertain uncertain
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GWL ------SNS 3
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Mochiri's GWLCAN uncertain Khurasan (?) GORZAN (Gorzevan)
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GY Giruft Kirman
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES unknown; H unknown not Herat
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HGL ------SNS 3
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HL
HLY
Herat Khurasan HLYDW
HLYDY
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SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Mochiri's HLM Xolm (?) Khurasan XLM (Xolm)
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HWC Gunde-Shapur (?) Khuzistan
SIGNATURE PAHLAVI CITY/DISTRICT PROVINCE NOTES Fars/Ardashir- KA Karzi (?) Khurra
District (?).
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KAL ------SNS 3
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KALCYDY ------SNS 3
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in or near Shirajan KL Kirman (?) (?)
http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/sasania/sas_mint/sas_mint_table.html
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