LOT 3549
Byzantine Octagonal AE Coin Weight of 2 Nomismata. Circa 6th-7th century AD.
Large Ṅ B engraved in outline (and inlaid in silver); all within wreath / Blank. Bendall 45. Condition as seen. Octagonal coin weight.(8.83gr, 18mm.).
ProvenanceEx London, Mayfair, UK, collection.
FootnotesOctagonal coin weights are rarer than commercial weights of the same shape.
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Byzantine Square AE Commercial Weight of One Uncia. Circa 5th-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Engraved in outline (and inlaid with silver) large cross between Γᴑ A; all within wreath / Blank. Cf. Pondera Online 10561. 23.85gr, 22mm x 6mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine Circular Glass Weight of One Nomisma. 6th-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Uncertain monogram / Blank. Cf. Bendall 64-65. 4.30gr, 24mm.
Condition as seen. Dark brown glass discoid weight.
Acquired in the 1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Byzantine PB Amulet. Circa 9th-13th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Military saint riding horse galloping to right, spearing a fallen man / Military saint riding horse galloping to left, spearing a fallen man. Apparently unpublished with the same iconography on both sides. 4.14gr, 22mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Pierced.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
