LOT 3525
Levant & the Near East Bronze Weight of Half Shekel. Iron Age, after 900 BC.
Relief of deity's head, possibly Astarte, with tall headdress; all on cubical base. For a similar weight cf. Hendin 184. Condition as seen.(4.91gr, 10mm x 10mm x10mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Neo-Babylonian(?) Silver Weight. Circa 8th-6th century BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Silver weight in the shape of a duck; stylised figure engraved to base. 4.91gr, 15mm x 9mm.
Condition as seen. Pierced for suspension.
Ex late London, UK, gentleman, 1970s. -
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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 10 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 8-9 var. (5 Shekels). 88gr, 59mm x 26mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
English Coin Weight for the AV Half Noble. From circa 1471.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Galley / Blank. 3.17gr, 16mm.
Condition as seen.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
