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LOT 0867

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EUR (€) 600 - 830
USD ($) 650 - 910

Current bid: £250 (‡+bp*)
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(1 Bid, Reserve not met)   |   Current bid: £250
ROMAN BRONZE PLATE BROOCH
2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (5.61 grams, 24 mm).

Comprising a discoid plaque and hinged S-curved pin to the reverse, the obverse with a millefiori glass insert.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
From the family collection of Mr S.A., Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection since the late 1990s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Hattatt, R., Iron Age and Roman Brooches, Oxford, 1985, item 523.

CONDITION