Of Exceptional Artistic Merit

Triton XVII, Lot: 469. Estimate $20000. Sold for $70000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 152-192. AV Dinar (21mm, 8.02 g, 12h). Mint I (A). 3rd emission. [Þ]αONαNOÞaO OOhÞKI KOÞαNO, diademed and crowned half-length bust of Huvishka right on clouds, flames at shoulder, holding mace-scepter in right hand and filleted standard in left / ΦAPPO up left, Pharro, nimbate, wearing fwings, standing right, holding filleted standard in right hand, lit brazier in left; tamgha to right. MK 256 (O1/R1) = Göbl, Antike, 3364 = G. Hirsch 20, lot 803 (same dies); Donum Burns –. Superb EF. The second example known and the first to appear at auction since the Hirsch coin in 1959.