299, Lot: 244. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Post-Mauryan (Deccan). Vidarbhas. Uncertain ruler. 1st century BC. Æ (8mm, 0.92 g). Linear cross with each arm terminating in pellet-in-annulet / Tree in railing. ATEC –; MACW –; BMC –. VF, brown surfaces.

An interesting coin. Perhaps issued as uniface (see ATEC 4771-3 for similar) and countermarked with the “tree in railing” symbol (see BMC p. 260, 20, pl. XXXVII, 3 for countermark).