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LOT 4186
Africa. Ashanti. Lot of Five [5] Brass Gold-Dust Weights. 19th century AD.
Various standards. Condition as seen.(58.41gr total.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK;
his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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LOT 4186
Africa. Ashanti. Lot of Five [5] Brass Gold-Dust Weights.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
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Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 1 1/2 (?) Qedet. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £60
Bronze weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail and with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.162, 143 var. (5 Qedet). 12.44gr, 20mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine Iconographic Lead Seal in the name of Constantine, Imperial Protospatharios(?) and Epi Tou Manglaviou. 10th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
✠ KЄ ROΗΘЄI TѠ [...], large cross set on base and three steps; tendrils and pellets in fields / ✠ [...]ധNC-[...]NTINധ [...]ΠΑΘΑΡ [...]ЄΠΙ ΤᏌ Μ -[...]ΓΛAR' in five lines. Translation: Lord, help [thy servant], Constantine, [Imperial Proto?]spatharios and epi tou manglaviou. DOCBS -; BLS I -; BLS II -. 5.40gr, 26mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Cut. Unpublished in the standard references.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
Seleukis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare(?) Commercial Lead Weight of 1/2 Mna or Hemimnaion. Dated Seleucid Era 163 (150/149 BC). ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ (Apollonios), agoranomos.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
ΑΠΟΛΛധΝΙΟΥ Τ Ο Υ TA[...]OY [...] ꞀΞΡ (date) in five lines, two crossed cornucopiae below, monogram(?) to left / Blank (letters in central field?). Pondera Online -; Weiß Peter, Jenseits der Agoranomie -; Rochesnard -; CPAI -. 362gr, 93mm x 70mm.
Condition as seen. Suspension tab.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
