LOT 3526
Levant & the Near East Cubical Bronze Weight of 2 Shekel. After 4th century BC.
Bronze cubical weight inscribed on one side HGHYL'L and LTGTP above and below linear design. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights -; Elayi & Elayi, Recherches -. Condition as seen. Pierced for holding or weight adjustment.(16.28gr, 23mm x 12mm x 9mm.).
ProvenanceEx London, UK, gentleman, 1990.
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LOT 3526
Levant & the Near East Cubical Bronze Weight of 2 Shekel.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
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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. -
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 2 Shekels. Circa 400-300 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Bronze weight in the shape of a shell. 29.12gr, 24mm x 14mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
English Coin Weight for the AV 'Crown of the Double Rose'. From circa 1526.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Crowned rose between two crowned Rs / Blank. Cf. Withers LSA p.35. 3.19gr, 15mm.
Condition as seen.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
