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Auction 117  1 Oct 2019
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Lot 246

Estimate: 2000 CHF
Price realized: 4250 CHF
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Kumaragupta I, 409 – 450/452 AD. Dinar, Lion-slayer type, 409-450/452, AV 7.83 g. King standing r., holding bow and shooting lion which falls backwards from leap. Rev. The goddess Ambika-Lakshmi, nimbate, seated facing on lion couchant r., head facing, and resting l. hand on hip. BMC Gupta 240 and pl. XIV, 10 (this obverse die). Kumar p. 321, Class II, variety C.1.
Good very fine

Ex Spink-Taisei Singapore 9, 1991, 134. From the Skanda collection.
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