Triton XVIII, Lot: 850. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127/8-152. Æ Drachm (17mm, 4.00 g, 12h). ÞAO KA NhÞKI, 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 60 (dies t/18); MK 788 (same dies); Donum Burns 177 (same rev. die). Near VF, brown surfaces, some porosity.