LOT 4473
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic AE Weight of 20 Shekel. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Bronze weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail and with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 58. Condition as seen.2 1/8 in. (172gr, 53mm x 38mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 4473
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic AE Weight of 20 Shekel.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
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Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Stone Weight of 60 Giru. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Stone weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail and with flat base. Cf. Μünz Zentrum Auktion XLIX, Teil IV, 5013 (hematite). 19.60gr, 35mm x 25mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Low Countries. Flanders AE Coin Weight of Gold Postulat Gulden. Struck according to the AD 1499 decree.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Coat-of-arms with polylobe / PЄS LXXXI (81=number of coins per Troy mark) in two lines; all within ornamented border. Cf. Withers, Coin-Weights of Europe 2, p.122. 2.75gr, 17mm, 9h.
Good Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s. -
Hardstone Weight of Uncertain Standard. 1st millennium BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Stone weight in shape of a dome. 11.85gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999, thence by descent.
