Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 517. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $4550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Vima Kadphises. Circa AD 100-127/8. AV Dinar (7.98 g, 12h). Diademed and crowned half-length bust right on clouds, holding mace-scepter; flames at shoulder, tamgha to left / Siva standing facing, head left, holding trident and he-goat skin; tamgha to left; Buddhist Triratana (“Three Jewels”) to right. Bopearachchi, Premiers, series XIII; MK -; Donum Burns -. Good VF. Extremely rare, only four examples cited by Bopearachchi.