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LOT 0209
Byzantine Gold Ring with Saint
CIRCA 6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (2.28 grams, 22.27 mm overall, 18.19 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O 1/2, USA 7 1/4, Europe 15.61, Japan 15)).
D-section hoop with domed square bezel, incuse bust with mantle draped from the right shoulder, cross to one side, lateral bands of punched pellets.
ProvenanceEx collection of a late Christian gentleman, 1970s
LiteratureCf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 448.
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