366, Lot: 71. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
POST-ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL INDIA, Medieval (Central Deccan). Kalachuris of Kalyana. temp. Bijjala. AV Pagoda (19mm, 3.41 g). Flan stamped with five punchmarks of stylized lion left and
ghajaba in Kannada; over this are punched two
śri, a crescent, and a pellet-in-annulet / Blank with some striations. Cf. Chattopadhyaya 116-7; cf. Mitchiner,
South I, 280; cf. MNI 634 (all refs for type). EF.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part 1, Numismatic Fine Arts/Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 470 (purchased from Max Schulman, 20 June 1928); Henderson Collection; 1913 Kodur Hoard.