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Drachm - Ubaydallah bin Ziyad Victorious
| Issuer | Umayyad Caliphate |
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| Year | 61 (681) |
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| Orientation | 3 o'clock ↑→ |
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| Obverse description | Bust of a Sasanian-style ruler facing right, wearing a winged crown. The Pahlavi epithet PYRWČ (pērōz, meaning 'Victorious') appears in the field before the standard governor's name legend. The design is enclosed within two concentric border rings, with three stars set within crescents distributed across the outer margin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad was the governor of Basra and Iraq under Yazid I, and it was he who ordered the military response that resulted in the death of Husayn ibn Ali at Karbala in 680 — an event that permanently fractured Islam between Sunni and Shia. The epithet "Victorious" on this issue almost certainly references that campaign, making the coin a direct artifact of one of the most consequential moments in Islamic history. Album 12 is among the scarcer governor's issues of the early Umayyad Arab-Sasanian series.