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Details
LOT 3278
Group of Eight [8] Byzantine AE Folles. Circa 7th-12th century AD.
Various emperors. Near Fine to Very Fine.(111gr total.). [8]
Provenance
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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