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259, Lot: 199. Estimate $500.
Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. "Samudra". Circa AD 350-375. AV Dinar (18mm, 7.48 g, 12h). Samudra standing facing, head left, sacrificing over altar and holding filleted trident; second filleted trident to left / Ardoxsho enthroned facing, holding filleted investiture garland and cornucopia; tamgha to upper left. MK 611; Donum Burns 813 ("Maiores domus"). VF.


This "usurper" is unknown apart from his coins. Based on stylistic incongruities with traditional Kushan numismatic iconography (cf. MK 599), the use of ad hoc mints, rather than the usual sites employed by others, and the use of "Samudra", Göbl argued for a field commander striking on behalf of Samudragupta in a region which had not yet been incorporated into the Gupta realm, but where Kushan dinars would have been the accepted currency.