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LOT 0964
Byzantine Bronze Inscribed Weight
5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (25.8 grams, 25 mm).
Tabular in form, obverse with eight-rayed starburst in a frame, reverse with incised text. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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