Details
LOT 3546
Byzantine Circular Glass Weight of One Nomisma. 6th-7th century AD.
Uncertain monogram / Blank. Cf. Bendall 64-65. Condition as seen. Dark brown glass discoid weight.(4.30gr, 24mm.).
Provenance
Acquired in the 1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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