CNG 103, Lot: 479. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127-151. Æ Didachm (23mm, 7.97 g, 12h). Main mint in Kapisha (Begram?). Late phase. Kanishka, diademed and crowned, standing facing, head left, holding goad and scepter, sacrificing over altar to left; [flame at shoulder] / 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); ANS Kushan –; Donum Burns 176 (same rev. die). Near VF, black green patina, earthen deposits.

Ex Triton XVIII (6 January 2015), lot 849.