Lot 7078

AV Dinara nd. (9.32 g.), Horseman, lion-slayer type - Obv: King on caparisoned horse r., bow across his body, running his sword through the mouth of a lion which rears up in front of the horse; elementary garuda standard above horse’s head, letter Ru or U (for Udayaditya or Ujjayini?) below horse / Rev: Nimbate goddess Lakshmi seated facing on lotus, holding long stemmed flower and riband, Sri Prakasadityah (a Royal name meaning "Light Sun") in field r. (Pankaj Tandon (“The Identity of Prakāśāditya,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Volume 24, Issue 4, pp.557-572) has shown conclusively that Prakāśāditya was in fact the Hūṇa king Toramāṇa. Robert Gӧbl (“Das Antlitz des Fremden: Der Hunnenkönig Prakasaditya in der Münzprägung der Gupta-Dynastie,” Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 126 (1990), pp.131-138.) had already argued quite persuasively that Prakāśāditya was not a Gupta at all, but a Hūṇa king, and had speculated that he was none other than Toramāṇa; BMC pl.XXII 1+; Fr.228a; ZENO197592) - a.XF, extremely rare