CNG 100, Lot: 150. Estimate $1500. Sold for $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Gupta Empire. First Dynasty. Samudragupta. Circa AD 335-380. AV Dinar (23mm, 7.40 g, 12h). Lyrist type (Class I, Variety α). Samudragupta, nimbate, seated left on a low couch or throne, playing lyre set on his knees; si in Brahmi on footstool below / Lakshmi seated left on wicker stool, holding diadem and cornucopia. BKB 48; BMC Guptas pp. 18-19, and pl. V, 7; Altekar pl. III, 16; Bayana 187. Near EF, Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, November 1981.