Kanishka I, Kushan Empire. AE tetradrachm, ca AD 128-152. 27mm, 16.98 g.

PAO KANHPK[I], Kanishka, diademed and crowned, standing  left, holding goad and sceptre, sacrificing over altar to left, flame at shoulder.
MHTRAGO BODO O (in Kushan, some letters retrograde or inverted), Buddha seated cross-legged facing on stool, hand 
raised before him in gesture of reassurance, and holding water pot in lap.

Göbl MK 793.1 (same dies); Cribb, Buddha 83-90; Donum Burns 179 (same dies). 

With permission of cngcoins.com, auction 106, Lot 580, Sept. 2017.