Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1067. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GUPTA KINGS of INDIA. Samudragupta. 335-380 AD. AV Dinar (7.71 gm). Lyrist Type. Samudragupta, nimbate, seated left, playing lyre set on his knees; footstool below / The goddess Laksmi, nimbate, seated left on wicker stool, holding diadem and cornucopiae. BMC Guptas 52; Altekar, Corpus pl. III, 16; Altekar, Bayana Hoard 187; MACW 4788. Good VF, obverse lightly double-struck. ($1500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXV (24 March 1993), lot 1079.