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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Asian Coins| > |Kushan Empire| > WA87809
Kushan Empire, Kanishka I the Great, c. 127 - 150 A.D.
|Kushan| |Empire|, |Kushan| |Empire,| |Kanishka| |I| |the| |Great,| |c.| |127| |-| |150| |A.D.|, Kanishka's conquests and patronage of Buddhism played an important role in the development of the Silk Road, and in the transmission of Mahayana Buddhism from Gandhara across the Karakoram range to China.
WA87809. Bronze tetradrachm, Mitchiner ACW 3114 (same rear leg var.), ANS Kushan 579 ff., Göbl Kushan 783, Donum Burns 167 ff., F/VF, some marks, some porosity, reverse slightly off center, Kapisha main mint, probably Begram mint, weight 16.966g, maximum diameter 25.6mm, die axis 0o, middle phase, c. 128 - 150 A.D.; obverse Bactrian inscription: þAO KANHþKI (King Kanishka), crowned, diademed king standing facing, holding spear and sacrificing at altar at left; reverse wind god Oado running left (variety with rear leg nearly straight), wind blown spiked hair, holding up with both hands a sheer large cape billowing out around body, tamgha left, Bactrian OAΔO downward on right; from the Robert| L3 Collection; SOLD











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