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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2665782, member: 84744&quot;]Here&#039;s an earlier coin of Ubayd Allah&#039;s father, Ziyad ibn Abih (&quot;son of his father&quot;, because his parentage was obscure), minted in 670-71 (50 AH) in Bishapur. (&quot;Bismillah rabbi&quot; in the margin, Album-5.)&nbsp; Ziyad was born in AH 1 and as a general, originally fought for the Caliph &#039;Ali... but with the success of the Umayyads under Mu&#039;awiyah, he was persuaded to switch sides and became governor of Basra and Kufa, a position his son inherited.&nbsp; Both he and his son suppressed Aliid rebellions for the Umayyads, with the son being particularly reviled in the Shia tradition for killing a grandson of Muhammad, Husayn.</p><p><br /></p><p>So both of these coins are significant with respect to the Shia-Sunni conflict we still see today.</p><p><br /></p><p>(On my coin, you can also see some Turco-Hephthalite countermarks. In 671, Ziyad sent 50,000 troops to Merv, which formed the nucleus of Islamic Khorasan, the basis for the eventual subjection of territories in central Asia.&nbsp; It is plausible that the countermarks resulted from the coin&#039;s circulation in this area after being taken near there by Ziyad&#039;s troops.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]592354[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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