LOT 3536
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 2 Shekels. Circa 400-300 BC.
Bronze weight in the shape of a shell. Condition as seen.(29.12gr, 24mm x 14mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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LOT 3536
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 2 Shekels.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
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Byzantine Circular AE Coin Weight of 36 Grammata or Nomismata(?). Circa 4th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Engraved cross between A(or Λ) S, N below; all within double wreath / Blank. Apparently unpublished in the standard references. 38.15gr, 30mm x 7mm.
Condition as seen.
Private collection, acquired 1980–1985.
The nearest weight standard according to the inscription would be that of 36 Nomismata (inscription as N ΛS), but according to the weight, 36 Grammata or Scrupuli (inscription as ΛS). -
Viking Truncated Spherical Bronze Weight. 9th-11th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Truncated spherical bronze weight with five pellets on one side and ten pellets on the other. Cf. Weber, K. Byzantinische Münzgewichte: Materialkorpus für 1-Nomisma-Gewichte, Schwelm, 2009. 20.41gr, 21mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s. -
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Medieval Bronze Folding AE Coin Balance. 15th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
A small folding scales beam balance for weighing coins and similar low weight items; the T-shaped centre section for holding the balance while in use, with two hinged arms ending in rings to receive scale pans on cords. See Geoff Egan, 'The Medieval Household', fig. 142 and no. 1055. 6.06gr, 37mm.
Condition as seen.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector. From his private collection since the 1970s; thence by descent circa 2000. Ex private collection of a Bedfordshire gentleman.
