CNG 88, Lot: 641. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 152-192. AV Dinar (20mm, 7.90 g, 12h). Mint II (B). 1st emission. Half-length bust left on clouds, holding mace-scepter, hand on hilt / NANA in pseudo-letter forms, Nana standing facing, head left, holding object and billowing veil; tamgha to left. MK 302 (O44β/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Donum Burns 274; CNG 81, 715 (same dies); Triton X, 485 (same dies). EF, obverse struck with slightly rusty die, die break on reverse. Extremely rare, the sixth known, and the third offered at auction.