366, Lot: 60. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

POST-ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL INDIA, Medieval (Northern India). Eastern Chalukyas. temp. Chalukya Bhima II Vishnuvardhana and successors. 935-946 and later. AV Pagoda (26mm, 4.23 g). Uncertain quadruped (hound?) standing left; above, inverted ra in Kannada, or taurine symbols in incuse; around, alternating ra in Kannada, or taurine symbols and cross with central pellet, all in incuse / Incuse of obverse. Cf. Mitchiner, South I, 187; cf. MNI 675 (both refs for type). VF, traces of deposits. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, December 1991.