LOT 3516
Neo-Babylonian(?) Silver Weight. Circa 8th-6th century BC.
Silver weight in the shape of a duck; stylised figure engraved to base. Condition as seen. Pierced for suspension.(4.91gr, 15mm x 9mm.).
ProvenanceEx late London, UK, gentleman, 1970s.
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Roman Glass Token. 1st century AD.
Estimate: £1,800 - 2,400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £900
Possibly Alexandria, Egypt. Radiate male head to right / Kerykeion between two grain ears and two poppies; L HI (date) across upper fields. 0.97gr, 17mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Edge chipped.
Acquired in the 1994. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Byzantine Invocative PB Seal in the name of Theodoros, Vatatzes (Batatzes). Circa 12th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
✠ KЄ BΟHΘ[...] Cധ ΔΟ[Υ]Λധ in four lines / ΘЄΟΔധ[...] Τധ(ligate) BAT[...]TZH in four lines. Translation: Lord, help your servant Theodoros, Batatzes. Apparently unpublished in the standard references. 4.79gr, 17mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
UK private collection before 2000. Acquired on the UK art market. Private collection, London. -
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Byzantine Monogrammatic PB Seal in the name of Sisinnios, Eparchos. Circa AD 600-650.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Monogram of CICINNIOY within wreath / Block monogram of ΕΠΑΡΧω(sic). Translation: (Seal of) Sisinnios, Eparchos. Cf. Schulten Frühjahr 1990, 1106. 8.06gr, 16mm, 12h.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
