INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 151-190. AV Dinar (208mm, 7.97 g, 12h). Main mint in Baktria (Balkh?). Late phase.

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Lot: 604. Estimated: $ 7 500

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INDIA, Kushan Empire. Huvishka. Circa AD 151-190. AV Dinar (208mm, 7.97 g, 12h). Main mint in Baktria (Balkh?). Late phase. ÞαO(retrograde h)α(retrograde h)OÞαO OYOhÞKI KOÞ[...], diademed and crowned half-length bust left on clouds or mountain, holding mace-scepter and goad / CAPAΠO to right, Sarapis standing left, extending right hand in benedictional gesture and cradling scepter in left arm; 7 to left. MK 185 (O2/R1); Cribb & Bracey E.g; ANS Kushan –; Donum Burns 242; CNG 100, lot 1675 (same rev. die); CNG 81, lot 714 (same rev. die). Lightly toned. Good VF. Extremely rare, three cited by Göbl, only four in CoinArchives.

From the Archytas Collection.

The figure of Sarapis demonstrates most clearly the multi-cultural proclivities of the Kushans. Sarapis was a specifically Hellenistic combination of the important and highly popular Egyptian gods Osiris and Apis, representing the religious syncretism of the Greco-Roman gods with their foreign counterparts in the period following the death of Alexander the Great. As the supreme god of the Alexandrian pantheon, the god had a large temple-complex in that capital, known as the Serapeum. Although Sarapis was quite popular in the Roman Empire, the apparent rarity of this reverse type suggests that this deity failed to achieve a similar level of devotion among the Kushans.

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