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 Square AE Glass of 1 Nomisma. 4th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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. 3.66gr, 13.5mm x 13.5mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000.
A remarkable re-use of an ancient Macedonian coin type. -
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. -
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.
