Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 692. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT. INDIA, Guptas. Kumaragupta I. 414-455 AD. AV Dinar (8.19 gm, 12h). Peacock Rider type. Kumaragupta, nimbate, standing left, feeding peacock from fruit bunch held in his right hand / Karttikeya, nimbate, seated on his peacock, Paravani, left, sprinkling incense with his right hand on altar to right, and holding spear in his left hand. BMC Guptas 250 (same reverse die); Altekar pl. XIII, 11; Bayana 1697; MACW -. Good VF, minor die shift on obverse. Very rare. ($5000)