Details
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.).
Provenance
Ex London, Mayfair, UK, collection.
Footnotes
Octagonal coin weights are rarer than commercial weights of the same shape.
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