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Auction 117  19-20 May 2021
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Lot 386

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 6000 USD
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INDIA, Kushan Empire. Vasudeva I. Circa AD 190-230. AV Dinar (21mm, 8.08 g, 12h). Main mint in Baktria (Balkh?). Early phase. ÞAO(retrograde h)A(retrograde h)OÞAO BO Z ΔhO KOÞ(retrograde h)O, Vasudeva, nimbate, helmeted, and diademed, standing facing, head left, holding trident, sacrificing over altar to left / OÞPO to left, triple-headed (two human and one a horned animal) and ithyphallic Siva standing facing, flames at shoulders, holding a garland or diadem in upper right hand, lotus in lower right, and trident tin upper left; lower left hand resting on hump of the bull Nandi standing behind left, wearing bell around neck; ^ to upper right . MK 500 var. (all three heads human); ANS Kushan –; Donum Burns 402 = C.A. Burns, "Topi Hoard of Kushana, Dinaras" in Numismatic Digest 14 (1990/1), p. 20 (Second Workshop) = C.A. Burns, "Coinage of the King of Kings, Vasudeva, Kushana" in Numismatic Digest XI (1987), Fig. 20 (Workshop "B"): CNG 108, lot 424 (same obv. die). Traces of deposits, scattered marks, slightly double struck. Near EF. Extremely rare, only one example (the CNG coin), in CoinArchives.

From the Archytas Collection.
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