Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 120 6-7 Oct 2020
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Kumaragupta I, 409 – 450/452 AD
Dinar, Lyrist type, 409-450/452, AV 8.09 g. King l., nimbate, sitting on a straight-backed couch and playing a stringed lute. Rev. The goddess Lakshmi or the queen sitting l. on a couch and holding a flower. Bayana 1810. Kumar p. 325 (this coin illustrated).
Of the highest rarity, one of only four specimens known. About extremely fine
Ex Spink-Taisei Singapore 9, 1991, 141 and NAC 117, 2019, 247 (sold for 85000 and not paid) sales. From the Skanda collection.
Dinar, Lyrist type, 409-450/452, AV 8.09 g. King l., nimbate, sitting on a straight-backed couch and playing a stringed lute. Rev. The goddess Lakshmi or the queen sitting l. on a couch and holding a flower. Bayana 1810. Kumar p. 325 (this coin illustrated).
Of the highest rarity, one of only four specimens known. About extremely fine
Ex Spink-Taisei Singapore 9, 1991, 141 and NAC 117, 2019, 247 (sold for 85000 and not paid) sales. From the Skanda collection.