LOT 3529
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard. Circa 750-300 BC.
Bone ring with narrow hole. For a similar example see British Museum 1969,0401.120. Condition as seen.(1.79gr, 23mm x 4mm.).
ProvenanceFound Hebron in 1971.
From the Gabby family collection, 1960s-1970s.
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LOT 3529
Minor Asia and Levante Bone Weight of Uncertain Standard.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Byzantine Octagonal AE Coin Weight of 2 Nomismata. Circa 6th-7th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Large Ṅ B engraved in outline (and inlaid in silver); all within wreath / Blank. Bendall 45. 8.83gr, 18mm.
Condition as seen. Octagonal coin weight.
Ex London, Mayfair, UK, collection.
Octagonal coin weights are rarer than commercial weights of the same shape. -
Islamic Circular Glass Jeton. 12th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Inscription in Arabic in four lines / Blank. Cf. Album 793.1. 2.94gr, 21mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex collection of the late S.M., London, UK. -
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.
