[sasanian vase]

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


Updated February 5, 2007


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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.

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


SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
Auncertain siteMedia

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AHunknownunknown
KWN AH SNS 3; Varhran IV

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AHMHamadanMedia/Central District
KWN AHM SNS 3; Varhran IV

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ALunknownunknownMitchiner lists AR for both Armenia and Fars

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ALMunknownnot in the Caucasus, Khurasan or SistanMitchiner's Armenia

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AMAmul (?)Khurasan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
APLAbarshahrKhurasan
AP

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ARTArdashir-KhurraArdashir-Khurra District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ART(H)Sh(TR)------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ASuncertain siteKhuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ASPSpahan (Isfahan)Media
SPHAN

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
ATAdurbadagan (?)Atrapatan (Azerbaijan) (?)Sears: may be blundered ST; probably not Adurbadagan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AWat or near Hormizd-ArdashirKhuzistanMochiri's AO/AOH; Mitchiner's AU/AUH
AWH

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYat or near Eran-khvarrah-ShapurKhuzistanMitchiner's AI or AB; Gobl's AB

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYLunknownCentral Iraq or Northwestern IranMitchiner's AIR (Airan Khurra Shapuhr)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYLAunknownunknownMitchiner's AIRA (Airan Khurra Shapuhr)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
AYLANat or near Eran-asan-kar-Kavad (Hulwan)Media/Western DistrictMitchiner's AIRAN (Airan Khurra Shapuhr)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BBACourt Mint[itinerant]Mitchiner's BKhA (Balkh); Mochiri's BLX (Balkh)
KWN BBA

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BHLBalkhKhurasanMochiri's BXL (Balkh); Schindel's GHL

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BNuncertainKirmanSears' Veh-Ardashir; Mochiri's and Mitchiner's GN (Gondishapur)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BSTBustSistanPeus 363, 5313

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BShHP------SNS 3
BShHPW

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BWB------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYN (?)unknownnot in Kirman, Khurasan or Sistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYShBishapurFars/Bishapur District

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYShHPW------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
BYST------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
CACWChach (?)Khurasan (?)From a unique coin of Hormazd IV, year 6, in Mochiri; who knows...

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DADarabgirdFars/Darabgird District
DALPeus 363, 5341 (Khusro II, year 25); this may be engraver error for NAL

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DALAPKR------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DLunknownunknownMitchiner's Darabgird; Mochiri's KR

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
DYNAWuncertain/Dinavar (?)Media (?)Gobl has this mint marked as Rayy
DYNAS
DYNAT
DYN

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GDGay (Jayy)Media/Southern DistrictA district of Isfahan; Mitchiner's GI; Mochiri's GY

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GLMunlocatedKirmanSears says possibly Bamm

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GNCKLGanjak-Chez (?)Northern ProvincesPeus 363, 5311
GNC

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GWat or near Goyman (?)MediaMitchiner's GU; Mochiri's GO (Gorgan)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GWDuncertainuncertain

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GWL------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GWLCANuncertainKhurasan (?)Mochiri's GORZAN (Gorzevan)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
GYGiruftKirman

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
Hunknownunknown; not Herat

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
HGL------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
HLHeratKhurasan
HLY
HLYDW
HLYDY

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
HLMXolm (?)KhurasanMochiri's XLM (Xolm)

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
HWCGunde-Shapur (?)Khuzistan

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
KAKarzi (?)Fars/Ardashir-Khurra District (?).

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
KAL------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
KALCYDY------SNS 3

SIGNATUREPAHLAVICITY/DISTRICTPROVINCENOTES
KLin or near Shirajan (?)Kirman (?)



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