Watch List notes:

HUNNIC TRIBES, Kidarites. Kidara, circa 350-385. Dinar (Gold, 35 mm, 7.49 g). 'BAΓO KIΔAPA OOZOPKO KOÞANO ÞAYO ('His Majesty, Kidara, Great King of the Kushan' in Bactrian) Kidara standing front, head to left, wearing a crenellated crown with a globe on top between two broad horizontally-pleated ribbons, sacrificing with his right hand over lighted altar and holding trident in his left hand; to left, trident above small altar; to right, tamgha. Rev. Traces of the illustrious God (Shiva) standing facing. ANS Kushan 2433. Cribb, Kidarites, p. 141, 16. An attractive example. Struck from the usual heavily worn reverse die, otherwise, good very fine.


From a North German collection of Central Asian gold coins, formed from the 1960s to 1980s.