CNG 100, Lot: 235. Estimate $2000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOCAL ISSUES, Taxila. Circa late 3rd-mid 2nd centuries BC. AV Quarter Stater (14mm, 2.16 g, 6 or 12h). BM Uninscribed Issues, Class VI, Variety a. Cunningham’s ‘Taxila’ symbol: crescent above and below central pellet; stylized “fish” to left and right / Zebu standing left; bucranium symbol to left. Senior –; BMCAI 169 = MIG Type 163 = M. Mitchiner, “The Local Coinage of Taxila and Gandhara (c. 220-160 BC),” JNSI XXXV (1973), P32; MACW –; CNG 61, lot 987; Triton IV, lot 350. Good VF. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from William B. Warden, Jr., February 1999.