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LOT 0837
Iron Ring with Jasper Gemstone
ROMAN, 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (6.13 grams, 27.23 mm overall, 16.19x18.91 mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13)).
Ferrous hoop with inset cloison to the bezel, profile female bust with laurel wreath to the brow. [No Reserve]
Provenance
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
Literature
Cf. Ruseva-Slokoska, L., Roman Jewellery, Sofia, 1991, item 274, for type.
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