Details
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.).
Provenance
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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