Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 731. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Gupta Empire. First Dynasty. Samudragupta. Circa AD 335-380. AV Dinar (7.51 g, 12h). King-and-Queen type. Chandragupta I, nimbate and holding standard, standing left, offering uncertain object to Kumaradevi, also nimbate, standing right / Lakshmi seated facing on lion recumbent right, feet on lotus, holding diadem and cornucopia; tamgha to left. BMC Guptas p. 9, - (Samudragupta); cf. Alketar p. 34, 4 (Chandragupta I; same obv. die); Bayana 6 (Chandragupta I; same rev. die). Good VF, light porosity. Rare.