Extremely Rare Oešo (Siva) Reverse

CNG 108, Lot: 424. Estimate $10000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Vasudeva I. Circa AD 190-230. AV Dinar (21mm, 8.06 g, 12h). Main mint in Baktria (Balkh?). Early phase. ÞAO(retrograde h)A(retrograde h)OÞAO BO Z ΔhO KOÞ(retrograde h)O, Vasudeva, nimbate, helmeted, and diademed, standing facing, head left, holding trident, sacrificing over altar to left / OÞPO up left, triple-headed (two human and one a horned animal) and ithyphallic Siva standing facing, flames at shoulders, holding a garland or diadem in upper right hand, lotus in lower right, and trident tin upper left; lower left hand resting on hump of the bull Nandi standing behind left, wearing bell around neck; ^ to upper right . MK 500 var. (all three heads human); ANS Kushan –; Donum Burns 402 = C.A. Burns, “Topi Hoard of Kushana, Dinaras” Numismatic Digest 14 (1990/1), p. 20 (Second Workshop) = C.A. Burns, “Coinage of the King of Kings, Vasudeva, Kushana,” Numismatic Digest XI (1987), Fig. 20 (Workshop “B”). Near EF, Extremely rare with the only other published example being the Donum Burns coin, none on CoinArchives.