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CNG 100, Lot: 156. Estimate $750.
Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDIA, Post-Gupta (Varendra). Kaivartas. Circa AD 640-730s. AV Dinar (20mm, 5.84 g, 2h). "Sankh shell standard" series. Archer standing facing, head left, holding bow in right hand, arrow in left; standard topped by large sankh shell to left / Goddess standing right with flowing drape; pseudo-characters on right. Mitchiner, Land 53; cf. BMC Guptas 621; cf. Altekar pl. XIXB, 2; MACW 4923 = MNI 322 (this coin). EF.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, January 1984. Ex Dr. Craig W. Burns Collection.