Details
LOT 3550
Byzantine Circular Glass Exagium Weight. Circa AD 510-675.
Uncertain eparch or prefect. Facing bust, holding mappa; uncertain inscription around, indicating eparch or prefect / Blank. Cf. Bendall, Weights 191 (for type); cf. CPAI 3.2, 713; cf. Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 70, 1433. Condition as seen. Deep blue coloured round weight with golden and green iridescence.(3.40gr, 23mm.).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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