LOT 3686
Judaea. Cupcake-Shaped AE Weight of 4 Shekels. Iron Age, circa 1000-500 BC.
Black cupcake-shaped weight with engraved large X on the base. For similar weight see Hendin, Ancient Scale Weights p.170, 182. Condition as seen.(42.72gr, 24mm x 18mm.).
ProvenanceEx Simmons Gallery, UK, 1990s.
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Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 3rd-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Monogram of THB / Blank. Leukel -. 19.30gr, 22mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Roman Truncated Spheroid Basalt Weight of 6 Scripula. Circa 1st century BC-1st century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Roman basalt weight in the shape of truncated sphere; dotted and inlaid in silver VI on one base, the other plain. Cf. Pondera Online 1083. 7.16gr, 19.5mm x 11.5mm.
Condition as seen.
From an old collection formed before WWII and believed to have been from Paestum. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985. -
Byzantine AE Weight of 1 Nomisma. Circa 5th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Circular coin weight for a solidus made from a Roman Provincial issue of Trajan (AD 98-117) from Antioch in Seleucis and Pieria: laureate head of Trajan to right / ΔHMAPX [E]Ξ [YΠ]AT [...] within laurel wreath. Cf. RPC III, 3653. 4.15gr, 19mm, 6h.
Fine. Serrated edge.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
