Lot 7424

Lion-slayer Type, AV dinara, 7.58 g, 17 mm, specific gravity 14.36. Obv.: Compactly built king stepping out to our left, while shooting lion on his left side. He wears tunic over loin cloth, sash and necklace. Big head with large curls, but no nimbus. First part of verse legend, in small letters, from I o’clock. Allan read the full text on another specimen as narendracandra[ḥ] prajayatyajeyo bhuvi siṅhavikkramaḥ, ‘The moon among the kings, who is famous for his warfare, who is invincible, and who is valorous like a lion, is victorious on the battlefield’. Many coins of this group are quite small, but still retain a fair image of the lion; here that is not the case / Rev.: Śrī (without nimbus) sits with legs folded on lion reclining to left. She scatters coins and holds compact lotus with hand on knee. She wears a hip cloth and hair tied into buns. A small, tilted tamga left and in the right field siṅhavikkramaḥ, blurred; (Raven 2005:619-620, cp. fig. 7 and more coins in this style; Kumar 2017/2024: Var. III.A.4.2; Raven frthcmg: CG2/Group 7, Var. 2. Fr.82c) - good VF