Rare Huvishka Bronze Type

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1054. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 152-192. Æ Tetradrachm (24mm, 7.95 g, 11h). Huvishka, crowned, seated facing, head right, holding scepter, tamgha to left / Nana standing left, holding scepter above Huvishka, who kneels right; tamgha to left. Cf. MK 843/844-5 (for obv./rev. types); Donum Burns 326-8/332 (for obv./rev. types). Near VF, black patina, with earthen deposits, few flan cracks. Unpublished in the standard references.