Triton XVIII, Lot: 849. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127/8-152. Æ Didachm (23mm, 7.97 g, 12h). Mint I (A). 3rd emission. [ÞAO KA NhÞKI KOÞANO], Kanishka, diademed and crowned, standing facing, head left, holding goad and scepter, sacrificing over altar to left; [flame at shoulder] / SAKAMA ODYOB ON (in Kushan, some letters retrograde or inverted), standing Śākyamuni Buddha: Buddha standing facing, hand raised in gesture of abhayamudrā; tamgha to inner left. Cribb, Buddha 51 (dies s/17); MK 787 (same dies); Donum Burns 176 (same rev. die). Near VF, black green patina, earthen deposits.