Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 960. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127/8-152. AV Quarter Dinar (2.00 g, 12h). Mint II (B). Kanishka standing facing, head left, holding goad over altar and standard; flame at shoulder / The lunar god Mao, diademed with long fillets, lunar "horns" at shoulders, standing facing, head left, extending hand in benedictional gesture and cradling globe-tipped scepter; tamgha to left. MK 48/3 (O21/R6). EF, struck with slightly rusty dies, scrape on reverse. Very rare.