Dinar - al-Muzaffar ibn 'Ali

The Ziyadids ruled the Tihama coastal plain of Yemen as nominal vassals — first of the Abbasids, then increasingly under the shadow of the Fatimid caliphate pushing down from Egypt. By the time al-Muzaffar ibn 'Ali came to power, the dynasty was in its final generation, squeezed between Fatimid doctrinal pressure and the rising Sulayhid power that would eventually extinguish Ziyadid rule entirely around 1044. Whether this dinar acknowledges Abbasid or Fatimid suzerainty in its legends is the key question for attribution within the type.