CNG 100, Lot: 148. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Gupta Empire. First Dynasty. Chandragupta I or Samudragupta. Circa AD 320-380. AV Dinar (21mm, 7.26 g, 12h). King-and-Queen type (Class I, Variety a). Chandragupta I, nimbate and holding standard, standing left, offering uncertain object to Kumaradevi, also nimbate, standing right / Lakshmi seated facing on lion recumbent right, feet on lotus, holding diadem and cornucopia; tamgha to left. BKB 1 (Chandragupta; same rev die); BMC Guptas p. 9, - (Samudragupta); cf. Alketar p. 34, 4 (Chandragupta I); Bayana 6 (Chandragupta Ie). Good VF, traces of deposits on reverse, obverse struck with worn die. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Malter XLII (9 September 1989), lot 483.