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Very Rare Iconographic Weight
Sold for (Inc. bp): £176
Nimbate and draped imperial bust facing, (face inlaid in silver) / Blank. Leu Numismatik, Web Auction 16, lot 4077. 4.15gr, 14mm.
Condition as seen. Very rare weight depicting an imperial bust.
Acquired in 1992. Private collection, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
Condition as seen. Very rare weight depicting an imperial bust.
Acquired in 1992. Private collection, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
XЄ BOHΘI LEO OLIDI(sic) [Christ, help Leon(?)] in three lines / Blank. 11.88gr, 14mm x 16mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Octagonal weight with plain sides. CPAI 1, 160 var. (10 Dirham). 34.09gr, 23mm x 11mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Fourteen-sided cubic weight with six large square facets, and eight triangle facets; one square facet with five punches. Cf. CPAI 1, 393-399 (no punches). 15.45gr, 13mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s. From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
Condition as seen.
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s. From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Square weight decorated with motifs of annulets-in-circles / Blank. 41.31gr, 34mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex London, UK, collection, 2000s.
Condition as seen.
Ex London, UK, collection, 2000s.
Very Rare Square Islamic Weight
Sold for (Inc. bp): £21
Legend in Kufic in three lines / Blank. CPAI -; Pondera Online -. 21.94gr, 28mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Legend in two lines at centre and in margins / Blank. 6.06gr, 28mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a Hampshire, UK, gentleman, established from the 1960s.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a Hampshire, UK, gentleman, established from the 1960s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Fourteen-sided cubic weight with six large square facets, and eight triangle facets. Cf. Pondera Online 11385. 304gr, 34mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £113
Fourteen-sided cubic weight, the sides decorated with crosses with pellets in angles within circular incuse; the square faces with additional five pellets. 62gr, 24mm.
Condtion as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Condtion as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A small folding scales beam balance for weighing coins and similar low weight items; the T-shaped centre section for holding the balance while in use, with two hinged arms ending in rings to receive scale pans on cords. Cf. Sheppard & Musham, Money Scales and Weights, no 320. 7.97gr, 11.5cm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a Kent, UK, gentleman.
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Circular punch within double circle; VI D(retrograde) around punch / Striated surface. 2.88gr, 11mm.
Condition as seen.
Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Nettlestead, Suffolk, UK. Recorded at British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) no.SF-8DFBBE.
From PAS: Dr Lisa Brundle comments on LIN-2CB2A6: A weight marked XXX D would have been used to ensure that payment of thirty pence (or half-a-crown) contained the correct amount of silver, rather than silver coins whose face value was thirty pence but which were seriously underweight. Other denominations in this series are VI D (sixpence), XII D (a shilling), and V S (a crown). Weights of both series have been recorded with initials stamped on them, and in several cases, these initials correspond to the initials of the founders who put their names on coin-weight. It is this series that links firmly with the monetary conditions of the 1690s, when the silver coin in circulation was very worn, a situation which eventually led to a major recoinage.
Condition as seen.
Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Nettlestead, Suffolk, UK. Recorded at British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) no.SF-8DFBBE.
From PAS: Dr Lisa Brundle comments on LIN-2CB2A6: A weight marked XXX D would have been used to ensure that payment of thirty pence (or half-a-crown) contained the correct amount of silver, rather than silver coins whose face value was thirty pence but which were seriously underweight. Other denominations in this series are VI D (sixpence), XII D (a shilling), and V S (a crown). Weights of both series have been recorded with initials stamped on them, and in several cases, these initials correspond to the initials of the founders who put their names on coin-weight. It is this series that links firmly with the monetary conditions of the 1690s, when the silver coin in circulation was very worn, a situation which eventually led to a major recoinage.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Plano-convex in section with lion-mask detailing to the obverse. 52.60gr, 40mm.
Condition as seen.
Property of a gentleman; acquired in the 1970s.
Condition as seen.
Property of a gentleman; acquired in the 1970s.
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