420, Lot: 343. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 151-190. Æ Tetradrachm (25mm, 11.25 g, 12h). Subsidiary mint in Gandhara (Peshawar?). Late phase. Huvishka on elephant right, [holding ankuśa (elephant goad)] / Eraklio (Herakles) standing left, raising hand to head and holding club; tamgha to left. MK 892; ANS Kushan –; Donum Burns –. Near VF, earthen dark green patina. Rare.

From the David Nelson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 139 (10 May 2006), lot 159.

This coin depicts the god Vajrapani, Buddha's protector, as Herakles, assimilated through Gandharan art via the Parthian representation of Verethragna as Herakles.