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Triton XVIII Sessions 1 & 2  6 January 2015
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Lot 849

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 1200 USD
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INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127/8-152. Æ Didachm (23mm, 7.97 g, 12h). Mint I (A). 3rd emission. [ÞAO KA NhÞKI KOÞANO], Kanishka, diademed and crowned, standing facing, head left, holding goad and scepter, sacrificing over altar to left; [flame at shoulder] / SAKAMA ODYOB ON (in Kushan, some letters retrograde or inverted), standing Śākyamuni Buddha: Buddha standing facing, hand raised in gesture of abhayamudrā; tamgha to inner left. Cribb, Buddha 51 (dies s/17); MK 787 (same dies); Donum Burns 176 (same rev. die). Near EF, black green patina, earthen deposits.

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