LOT 3528
Levant & the Near East Cubical Bronze Weight of 1/3 Shekel. After 5th century BC.
Cubical bronze weight with flat round base inscribed uncertain letters. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 120 (4 Shekel). Condition as seen.(3.15gr, 14mm x 9mm.).
ProvenanceEx London, UK, gentleman, 1990.
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LOT 3528
Levant & the Near East Cubical Bronze Weight of 1/3 Shekel.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Roman Glass Token. 1st century AD.
Estimate: £1,800 - 2,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £900
Possibly Alexandria, Egypt. Radiate male head to right / Kerykeion between two grain ears and two poppies; L HI (date) across upper fields. 0.97gr, 17mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Edge chipped.
Acquired in the 1994. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Byzantine Circular Glass Weight of One Nomisma. 6th-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Uncertain monogram / Blank. Cf. Bendall 64-65. 4.30gr, 24mm.
Condition as seen. Dark brown glass discoid weight.
Acquired in the 1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Babylonian Truncated Pyramidal Bronze Weight. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Weight in form of truncated pyramid with figure and symbol on the bottom. 5.93gr, 18mm x 10mm x 6mm.
Condition as seen. With ring for holding or weight adjustment.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
