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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Phoenicia, Tyre. Commercial Lead Weight of Half Libra. Circa 115-114 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Club within egg-and-dart frame; uncertain symbol to left / Blank. Wollf and Finkielsztejn Fig 2.; Pondera Online 12864 (this weight). 110gr, 38mm x 40mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung, Online Auction 270, 12 March 2020, lot 2682 (part of). Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Byzantine Circular AE Commercial Weight of 2 Unciae. Circa 4th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Engraved in outline and inlaid with silver monogram of BABYΛΑ above Γᴑ B, small crosses flanking, all within border of waves / Blank with punch in centre. Not in the standard references. 52.55gr, 34mm x 9mm.
Condition as seen. Circular commercial weight with edge of three tiers.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
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Group of Two [2] George III AE Coin Weights. 1760-1820.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Various standards. 10.61gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
