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Egypt Uncertain PB Tessera. Circa 1st-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Head to right / Hieroglyphic inscription. 10.60gr, 20mm, 3h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Egypt Uncertain PB Tessera. Circa 1st-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Head to right(?) / Hieroglyphic inscription. 6.80gr, 19mm, 3h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine Octagonal AE Commercial Weight of 3(?) Unciae. Circa 5th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £351
Engraved in outline façade of church with three sections each surmounted by cross and containing Λ-N-O; Γ Γ flanking; all within double border / Blank. Pondera Online -; Bendall -. 90gr, 45mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Uniface octagonal commercial weight with plain edges.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine AE Commercial Weight of 1 Uncia. Circa 5th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Engraved in outline half-length facing imperial bust, wearing crown with pendilia and cross on top and holding globus cruciger in each hand; A-N across upper field; all within wreath / Blank. Unpublished in the standard references. 27.77gr, 27mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Extremely rare; apparently unpublished.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine(?) Glass Coin Weight. Circa 6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Uncertain design / Blank. 1.34gr, 15mm.
Condition as seen.
From the London collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999. -
Byzantine Iconographic PB Seal in the name of Magnos, Kourator of the Divine House and Kommerkiarios of Theoupolis. Second half of 6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Facing nimbate and crowned busts of Justin II and Sophia (or alternatively Tiberius II with Anastasia or Maurice Tiberius with Constantina); the emperor wears chlamys, the empress wears jewelled chlamys; cross between; TOY ΘЄΙΟY ΟΙΚ' [TƔ] ΥΠΟ ΜΑΓΝΟΝ Є[ΝΔΟΞ'] ΚΟΥΡΑΤ' ΚΟ[ΜΜЄΡ]Κ' ΘΥ[ΠΟ] in four lines below / Blank, but for imprint of burlap. Translation: (Seal of) the divine house under Magnos, the glorious Kourator and Kommerkiarios of Theoupolis. BLS I, 130. 32.46gr, 41mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. An extremely rare and historically important seal.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine Iconographic PB Seal. Circa 7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Facing imperial bust between small crosses / Monogram. 2.87gr, 16mm, 6h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Uncertain Late Roman-Byzantine AE Token(?) After 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Small cross within wreath with jewel at apex, CON below / Blank. 9.84gr, 23mm.
Good Very Fine.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Byzantine AE Amulet. 2nd millennium AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Stylised nimbate bust of the Virgin orans with Christ on her breast / Blank. 5.27gr, 26mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Islamic Polyhedral Bronze Commercial Weight of 20 Dirhams or 2 Uqiya. Circa 10th-13th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Commercial weight in the form of a polyhedron with truncated ends and with its sides ornamented with 'bird's eye' patterns. Cf. Silifke 127. 57.78gr, 22mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Islamic PB Weight of Uncertain Standard. Circa 6th-9th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Inscription in three lines / Blank. 4.22gr, 13mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ottoman Empire. Anonymous PB Seal. 19th century. Related to the Ottoman postal system.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Legend in Ottoman Turkish containing mintname / Legend in Ottoman Turkish. 16.01gr, 22mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
