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LOT 1082

Byzantine Inscribed Silver Ring

CIRCA 6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.

1 in. (7.53 grams, 27.13 mm overall, 21.06 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V, USA 10 1/2, Europe 23.77, Japan 22)).

A D-section hoop with slightly flared shoulders and trumpet-shaped discoid bezel; hatched bands to the shoulders, four lines of enigmatic Greek text [ΧΥΙ ΑΓΓ ΙΧXΙ] to the bezel. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Property of a private collector; acquired before 1975.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 480.

CONDITION

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LOT 1082

Byzantine Inscribed Silver Ring

Sold for (Inc. bp): £130

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