449, Lot: 253. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127-151. Æ Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.21 g, 12h). Subsidiary mint in Gandhara (Peshawar?). Late phase. Kanishka standing facing, head left, sacrificing over altar and holding trident / Mao, with crescent at shoulders, standing facing, head left, extending right hand in benedictional gesture, left hand on hilt; tamgha to left. MK 801 (dies unlisted); ANS Kushan 631; Donium Burns 193 (same obv. die). Brown surfaces, light roughness. Near VF.