INDIA. Kushan Empire. Kanishka I (ca. AD 127-151). AE drachm (17mm, 11h). NGC Choice Fine. Attic standard, Kashmir, magnetic copper drachms. ÞAO ΚA-NΗΡKI, Kanishka I standing facing, head left, wearing long beard, diadem with ribbons, round cap, cloak clasped at chest worn over tunic, trousers, and boots, dropping pellets with right hand over lit altar at left, grounded spear in left; ji (Kharoshthi) in left field / MΑΟ, Mao standing facing, head left, wearing diadem with ribbons to right, cloak around shoulders clasped at chest, worn over belted ankle-length tunic and boots, crescent emerging from shoulders, right arm extended with hand raised in benediction, left hand on sword hilt at hip; tamgha in left field, dotted border. ANS Kushan 645-652. Göbl, MK 802. From the Historical Scholar Collection

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