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LOT 0965
Babylonian Bronze Duck Weight
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (12.5 grams, 24 mm).
With flat base; old collector's ticket with legend 'MB34/7 / 1 ½ shekels / 12.6 g- / Bronze'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s.
From a North London collection.
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