Watch List notes:

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127/8-152. Æ Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.72 g, 12h). Main mint in Kapisha (Begram?). Middle phase. Kanishka standing left, holding goad and standard, sacrificing over altar; flame at shoulder / Siva standing left, holding thunderbolt, diadem, trident, and flask; tamgha to left. MK 781; ANS Kushan 553-60; Donum Burns 164; W. Pieper, "The earliest Saivite images on ancient Indian coins," Numismatic Digest 39 (2015), fig. 9 (this coin). VF, earthen dark brown patina.

From the Dr. Wilfried Pieper Collection.