420, Lot: 332. Estimate $200. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Kushan Empire. Kanishka I. Circa AD 127-151. BI Didrachm (22mm, 8.06 g, 12h). Main mint in Kapisha (Begram?). Early phase. Kanishka standing left, sacrificing over altar and holding standard / Helios standing left, raising hand in benediction and placing other on hip; tamgha to left. Cf. MK 766; cf. ANS Kushan 391-402 (both refs for copper issues); Donum Burns –; cf. Mukherjee, Kushana Silver Coinage 53 (for a similar billon coin of different reverse type). Fine. Rare.

From the David Nelson Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 144, 26 July 2006), lot 170.