Details
LOT 3574
Anonymous PB Tessera. 2nd-4th century AD.
Possibly Levante mint. Menorah / Uncertain design. Condition as seen.(2.84gr, 17mm.).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980-1985.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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