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LOT 3701
Byzantine Square AE Glass of 1 Nomisma. 4th-6th century AD.
Square coins weight made from a bronze coin of Philip II of Macedon (359-336 BC): [ΦΙΛΙΠΠ]ΟΥ, youth on horseback riding to right; below, Θ. Cf. HGC 3.1, 882. Condition as seen.(3.66gr, 13.5mm x 13.5mm.).
Provenance
From an English collection formed before 2000.
Footnotes
A remarkable re-use of an ancient Macedonian coin type.
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