LOT 3523
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 5 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Bronze weight in the shape of a resting lion. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 144. Condition as seen.(45.20gr, 40mm.).
ProvenanceEx property of a late London, UK, gentleman, 1970s.
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LOT 3523
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight of 5 Shekels.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
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Byzantine Circular Glass Exagium Weight. Circa AD 510-675.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Uncertain eparch or prefect. Facing bust, holding mappa; uncertain inscription around, indicating eparch or prefect / Blank. Cf. Bendall, Weights 191 (for type); cf. CPAI 3.2, 713; cf. Roma Numismatics, E-Sale 70, 1433. 3.40gr, 23mm.
Condition as seen. Deep blue coloured round weight with golden and green iridescence.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Ottoman Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 10 Dirham. 17th-18th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Polyhedral bronze weight; tughra on one side. Cf. Kürkman 143. 30.17gr, 17mm.
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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Group of Twenty Four [24] Bronze Coin Weights. 15th-19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Various types. 99gr total.
Condition as seen.
Found Suffolk, UK.
