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LOT 4164
Byzantine Square Bronze Commercial Weight of One Uncia. Circa 4th-6th century AD.
Engraved in outline and inlaid with silver large cross between Γᴑ A; all beneath arch supported by two columns / Blank. Cf. Pondera Online 18540; Bendall -; MAH -; Pera -. Condition as seen. Square commercial weight with edge of two tiers.(26.80gr, 24mm x 25mm x 6mm.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 4164
Byzantine Square Bronze Commercial Weight of One Uncia.
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
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Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 3 Qedet. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Bronze weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail [hole filled with lead(?)]. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.162, 143 var. (5 Qedet). 26.44gr, 32mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex S collection, London, UK, deceased; formed 1970s-1990s. -
Byzantine Spherical Commercial Bronze Weight of 1 Uncia. Circa 5th-7th Century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
ɄA (A inverted) inlaid in silver / Blank. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 23 (A not inverted). 27.44gr, 19mm x 15mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
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England. Stuart Period Bronze Weight of Sixpence. After 1690.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Circular punch within double circle; VI D(retrograde) around punch / Striated surface. 2.88gr, 11mm.
Condition as seen.
Found whilst searching with a metal detector near Nettlestead, Suffolk, UK. Recorded at British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) no.SF-8DFBBE.
From PAS: Dr Lisa Brundle comments on LIN-2CB2A6: A weight marked XXX D would have been used to ensure that payment of thirty pence (or half-a-crown) contained the correct amount of silver, rather than silver coins whose face value was thirty pence but which were seriously underweight. Other denominations in this series are VI D (sixpence), XII D (a shilling), and V S (a crown). Weights of both series have been recorded with initials stamped on them, and in several cases, these initials correspond to the initials of the founders who put their names on coin-weight. It is this series that links firmly with the monetary conditions of the 1690s, when the silver coin in circulation was very worn, a situation which eventually led to a major recoinage.
