LOT 4482
Phoenicia, Tyre. Commercial Lead Weight of Half Libra. Circa 115-114 BC.
Club within egg-and-dart frame; uncertain symbol to left / Blank. Wollf and Finkielsztejn Fig 2.; Pondera Online 12864 (this weight). Condition as seen.(110gr, 38mm x 40mm.).
ProvenanceEx 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.
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Roman Glass Token. 1st century AD. Possibly Alexandria, Egypt.
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
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 Square AE Commercial Weight of 2 Unciae. 4th-6th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Engraved in outline (and inlaid with silver) large cross between Γ B / Blank. Bendall 71 var. (all within wreath). 52.58gr, 27mm x 8mm.
Condition as seen.
From a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
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Anonymous PB Tessera. 2nd-4th century AD. Possibly Levante mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Menorah / Uncertain design. 2.84gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980-1985. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
