Very Rare Huvishka Dinar

301, Lot: 148. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 152-192. AV Dinar (20mm, 7.87 g, 12h). Mint I (A). Diademed and crowned half-length bust left on clouds, holding mace-scepter and goad / ΦAPPO, Pharro (Hermes-Mercury) standing facing, head left, holding filleted scepter and [purse]; tamgha to right. MK 144 (O26d/R2). VF. Very rare. Only two known to Göbl at the time of his study and the second we have handled (the other, in Triton X, lot 479, hammered for $2800).