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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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. -
Roman Imperial PB Seal. 1st-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Uncertain mint in Egypt. Draped bust of Serapis to right, wearing kalathos / Blank. Rostowzew & Prou -; Leukel -; cf. Récamier 463. 7.51gr, 14mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Anonymous Lead Seal. 4th-5th century AD.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Levante or Egypt mint. Menorah / Blank. For a similar issue cf. CNG, E-245, 530. 3.15gr, 12mm.
Near Very Fine.
Collected from 1970-1999. From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.
