LOT 4476
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic AE Weight of 3 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. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 62 (hematite stylised duck). Condition as seen.(24.30gr, 43mm x 18mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 4476
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic AE Weight of 3 Shekel.
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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Ottoman Polyhedral AE Weight of 20 Dirham. Circa 18th-19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Polyhedral bronze weight with blank faces. CPAI II 362. 63.63gr, 21mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
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Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Confronted heads of male and female, both bare-headed / Blank. Apparently unpublished. 22.01gr, 27mm x 23mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
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Byzantine Square AR Weight. 6th-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £176
Half-length busts of two imperial figures holding long cross between them; pellet to upper corners; all within double square border / Blank. 11.01gr, 20mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
