Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1083. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I . Circa AD 127/8-152. Æ Tetradrachm (16.76 g, 11h). Kanishka standing facing, head left, holding standard, sacrificing over altar to left / Mao, diademed, lunar "horns" at shoulders, standing facing, head left, right hand extended in benedictional gesture, hand on hip; tamgha to left. MK 801/1 (same dies). Good VF, red-brown surfaces, trace of hard green on reverse. An exceptional example of this type.