Lot 7439

Archer Type, AV dinara, 9.18 g, 17.0 mm, specific gravity 14.22. Obv.: Heavy-built, nimbate king with thick curls and tubular torso, standing in flexed stance. He holds tall bow and arrow and wears long-tailed, smooth tunic over knee-length, pleated loin cloth. On left a Garuḍa banner. A śrīvatsa lucky sign at the top left. Only a shimmer of the circular legend and beneath the left arm skanda / Rev.: Śrī sits with folded legs on tall lotus. She scatters coins or treasures with right hand and holds round lotus with bulbous petals; hip cloth with thin pleats. In top left quarter a circle symbol; in the right field kkramādityaḥ. (Tandon 2016: 71-72; Kumar 2017/2024: Var. II.B/II.B.2; Raven frthcmg: SkG/Group 3, Var. 1, Fr.100b) - VF-XF, The rarest series of Skandagupta’s Archer coins and much better details than a specimen in Allan’s British Museum catalogue