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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Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic AE Weight of 30 Giru. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights 63 (11.10gr); cf. Münz Zentrum, Auktion XLIX, Teil IV, 5018 (10.26gr; hematite). 11.44gr, 18mm x 16mm.
Condition as seen.
From a London, UK, collection, 2000s. -
Phoenicia, Tyre. Commercial Lead Weight of Half Libra. Circa 115-114 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Club within egg-and-dart frame; uncertain symbol to left / Blank. Wollf and Finkielsztejn Fig 2.; Pondera Online 12864 (this weight). 110gr, 38mm x 40mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex 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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Group of Three [3] AE Weights. Circa 5th-12th century AD.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Various standards. 61gr total.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
