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LOT 0849
Byzantine Bronze Weight Collection
8TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 - 1 1/4 in. (276 grams total, 11-32 mm).
Primarily truncated spherical forms, a number displaying letters, monograms and other patterns or markings. [5, No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Simmons Gallery, London E11, UK, in the 1990s.
From a North London collection.
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