LOT 4169
Byzantine Spherical Commercial Bronze Weight of 1 Uncia. Circa 5th-7th Century AD.
ɄA (A inverted) inlaid in silver / Blank. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 23 (A not inverted). Condition as seen.(27.44gr, 19mm x 15mm.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 4169
Byzantine Spherical Commercial Bronze Weight of 1 Uncia.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 5 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £351
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 9. 46.11gr, 57mm x 19mm.
Condition as seen. With ring for holding or weight adjustment.
Acquired in the 1980s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Islamic Square Bronze Weight of 8 Dirham. Circa 8th-13th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £21
Legend in Kufic in three lines / Blank. CPAI -; Pondera Online -. 21.94gr, 28mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Seleukid Empire, Commercial Lead Weight of 1 Mna. Circa 2nd-1st century BC.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Engraved BA AN in two lines; vertical Seleukid anchor in centre / Blank. Cf. Pondera Online 14411 (Antiochia, 1/4 Mna). 474gr, 74mm.
Condition as seen.
Private collection, Austria. Private collection, Europe.
