Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 543. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127/8-152. AV Dinar (8.03 g, 12h). Mint I (A). Kanishka standing facing, head left, holding goad over altar and standard; flame at right shoulder / Mao, diademed with long fillets, lunar "horns" at shoulders, standing facing, head left, right hand extended in benedictional gesture and cradling globe-tipped scepter in left arm; tamgha to left. MK 58. Near EF. Struck from dies of elegant style.