Lot 8252

Archer Type, AV dinara, 7.73 g, 18.5 mm, specific gravity 14.89. Obv.: Large-headed, nimbate king, with bow and arrow, standing on beaded lotus support (usually off flan, as here) next to Garuḍa banner. He wears tunic with ornamental plaques over loin cloth. Layers of curls around the head. Only traces of the circular legend of the type (starting with ‘devaśr’ on I o’clock) as the flan was quite small. Beneath the left arm ‘candra’ / Rev.: Nimbate Śrī, with embossed diadem, sits with folded legs on raised lotus pistil. She holds diadem fillet and lotus. A pleated hip cloth covers the thighs. On left a tamga and in the right field ‘śrīvikkramaḥ’ (Raven 1994a:356-357 (Var. II.10.2); Kumar 2017/2024: Var. III.A.5; Raven frthcmg: CG2/Group 7, Variety 4, Fr.79a) - well centred. aXF