LOT 4495
Byzantine(?) Circular AE Weight. Circa 7th-9th century AD.
Facing bust / Blank. Condition as seen. Circular weight with edge of three tiers.(7.86gr, 20mm.).
ProvenanceEx DRG Coins and Antiquities, Bishops Stortford, Essex, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
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Roman Glass Token. 1st century AD. Possibly Alexandria, Egypt.
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
Radiate male head to right / Kerykeion between two grain ears and two poppies; L HI (date) across upper fields. 0.97gr, 17mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Edge chipped.
Acquired in the 1994. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Hardstone Weight of Uncertain Standard. 1st millennium BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Stone weight in shape of a cylinder. 6.09gr, 15mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999, thence by descent. -
Great Britain. Monetary AE Weight for Portuguese Coins (Dobra). Circa 1705-1750.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Crowned 'THREE POUND TWELVE' / Crowned 'THREE POUND TWELVE'. Pom II/797. 28.54gr, 28mm, 6h.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
