Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 693. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT. INDIA, Post-Gupta. Bengal. Anonymous. Circa 640-730s AD. AV Dinar (5.89 gm, 11h). "Sankh shell standard" series. Archer standing facing, head left, holding bow in right hand, arrow in left, curling line extending from right waistband; standard topped by large sankh shell to left / Goddess standing right with flowing drape; pseudo-characters on right. Mitchiner, Land 53; cf. BMC Guptas 621; cf. Altekar pl. XIXB, 2; MACW 4923. Good VF. ($600)