402, Lot: 401. Estimate $750. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HUNNIC TRIBES, Kidarites. Peroz. Circa 395-425. AR Drachm (27mm, 3.90 g, 3h). Mint B in Gandhara. Bust right, wearing ram-horn crown with korymbos and inner ribbons; crescent to right; uncertain legend around, tamgha within portion to right / Fire altar with bust right in flames; flanked by two attendants, each wearing mural crown; no legend. Cribb, Kidarites B1b; Göbl, Dokumente 1 var. (no legends); Göbl, Nachtrag, 1A; P. Tandon, “An Important New Copper Coin of Gadahara” in JONS 200 (Summer 2009), coin 6. Good VF, toned, area of weak strike. Very rare.

From the BRN Collection, purchased from Warden Numismatics, January 2012.