294, Lot: 427. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Gupta Empire. First Dynasty. Kumaragupta I Mahendraditya. Circa AD 413-455. AV Dinar (20mm, 8.09 g, 12h). Horseman type. Kumaragupta, not nimbate, riding prancing horse left / Lakshmi seated left on wicker stool, holding lotus and feeding twig to peacock at left, standing right. BKB 92 var. (Lakshmi nimbate); BMC Guptas 211; Altekar Class II, Variety b; Bayana 1554. VF, traces of deposits and triple strike on reverse. Attractive, well centered strike.