CNG 103, Lot: 481. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 152-192. AV Dinar (19mm, 7.85 g, 12h). Subsidiary mint in Gandhara (Peshawar?). Early phase. Crowned and diademed bust left on clouds, holding mace scepter and goad; flames over shoulder / Ardoxsho, nimbate, standing right, extending cornucopia with both hands; tamgha to right. MK 306/1 (O34/R48); ANS Kushan –; Donum Burns –; Sunrise 544 (this coin). Superb EF, lightly toned.

Ex Sunrise Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 288; Album 6 (7 June 2009), lot 662.