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Message:: [QUOTE="Parthicus, post: 24704703, member: 81887"][USER=4920]@eddiespin[/USER] : I think I was unclear with my statement.  When I wrote "For examples, go to..." I meant that that search term would bring up examples of the ZwZwN series from different time points, from the early possibly-official Hormazd IV, to clearly later imitations, to imitations incorporating Arabic inscriptions and thus clearly much later than Hormazd's lifetime.  All the annotations in Zeno say that ZwZwN is a mintmark (except for the obvious transposition you noted), but those annotations are just what's submitted by the person uploading the photo, and while they may be based on good scholarship they can be mistaken.  Of course it's natural to assume that ZwZwN is a mintmark- it's exactly where a mintmark would go on Sasanian coins- and (as I stated) I doubt the competing claim that it is a denomination.  The evidence (particularly  known find-spots) supports this type being minted in Armenia, over a thousand miles from the most often given potential spot of Zuzan (a tiny town in distant Khorasan), so I have no idea of the exact mint location in Armenia.[/QUOTE]