Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 676. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  	
Estimate $200,000 Sold For $125,000
ANCIENT. INDIA, Kushans. Kanishka I. Circa 127/8-152 AD. AV Dinar (7.93 gm, 12h). 

FAONANAOFAO KA-NHFKI KOFANO, Kanishka standing facing, head turned left, flames on shoulder, holding standard in his left hand, sacrificing over altar to left
BODDO, Buddha, nimbate, standing facing, wearing samghati (a long pleated garment), his head with eyes wide open and large moustache, ashnisha on head, urna between eyebrows, his right hand is raised in the gesture of reassurance, abhayamudra, and he holds a pleat of his robe in his left hand; tamgha to right. 

MK 66 = BMC 16 (same obverse die); Tanabe, Silk Road Coins ­ The Hirayama Collection, 51 and cover coin (same reverse die); Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Boston 1965, pg. 147, fig. 10 (same reverse die; stolen and destroyed, 1978). A fourth dinar, in a private collection, was recently published by O. Bopearachichi in From Oxus to India (Lattes, 2002). 
Good VF, a few light marks. The fourth extant Buddha dinar, the Boston specimen having been lost. ($200,000)


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