437, Lot: 233. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Kushan Empire. Vima Kadphises. Circa AD 113-127. Æ Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.17 g, 12h). Main mint in Begram. Vima Kadphises standing facing, head left, sacrificing over altar; trident to left, tamgha and club to right / Siva with three heads standing facing, holding trident; behind, the bull Nandi standing right; Buddhist
triratana (“Three Jewels”) to left; all within bead-and reel border. MK 760; ANS Kushan –; Donum Burns 83. VF, dark green patina, hint of smoothing, areas of roughness. Rare with the bead-and reel border.