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 AE Weight of 1 Shekel. Late Bronze Age to Iron Age II, 1500-587 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Bronze weight in shape of a head with suspension loop attached. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 122. 8.82gr, 20mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Stone Weight of 60 Giru. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
Stone weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail and with flat base. Cf. Μünz Zentrum Auktion XLIX, Teil IV, 5013 (hematite). 19.60gr, 35mm x 25mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Byzantine(?) Circular AE Weight. Circa 7th-9th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Facing bust / Blank. 7.86gr, 20mm.
Condition as seen. Circular weight with edge of three tiers.
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Bishops Stortford, Essex, UK. From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
