407, Lot: 251. Estimate $300. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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HUNNIC TRIBES, Alchon Huns. Adomano. Mid-late 5th century. AV Dinar (33mm, 6.76 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Baktria. Kushano-Sasanian style figure standing left on ground line, wearing crown with ribbons and surmounted by crescent with rosette and ribbons, sacrificing at altar and holding trident; to left, trident standard;
Q to right / Ardoxsho enthroned facing (largely indistinct). Vondrovec Type 85 = Göbl,
Dokumente Em. 85 (Khingila); Alram,
Alchon 29 (Khingila). VF, deposits in devices, minor tooling, a cople of pits piercing the flan.
From the François Righetti Collection. Ex Album FPL 205 (May 2005), no. 2.