366, Lot: 140. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDEPENDENT STATES, Vijayanagar. Venkatapiraya III. 1630-1642. AV Half Pagoda (16mm, 1.74 g, 8h). Venkatesvara, holding scepter and chakra, standing facing within ornamented archway / śri venka/teshvara/yanamah in stylized Devanagari. Ramesan Type XL; MNI 920; Friedberg 373. EF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Stephen Album, August 1985.