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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 24889289, member: 82322&quot;]What a wonderful coin, [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER] !</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael Bates suggested that Ziyad was the son of a prostitute and never knew who his father was. How he acquired his name was the scandal of the seventh century.&nbsp; The Caliph, most probably at Ziyad’s behest, found witnesses to swear that, at the time when Ziyad was conceived, Abi Sufyan was the only client of Ziyad’s mother and therefore must have been Ziyad’s father!</p><p><br /></p><p>I never did find a good example of Ziyad but here is one of his sons&#039;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1598767[/ATTACH] </p><p>&#039;Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad. Basra, AH 59 (AD 678), AR drachm, 32mm</p><p>ex Wayne Sayles, April 2015[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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