Unusual Kushan Dinar

170, Lot: 148. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 152-192. AV Dinar (21mm, 7.96 g. Crowned and diademed half length bust left on clouds, holding mace scepter and sword hilt / Lunar goddess Nana, nimbate, standing right, holding box and scepter; \ to left, tamgha to right. Cf. KM 325/1 (same obv. die). Good VF, some tooling.

The reverse legend on this coin is very similar to that on a Ardoxsho dinar of the same emission (KM 331), which Göbl describes as a corrupted legend.