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LOT 0637

Sold for (Inc. bp): £65

ROMAN BRONZE BEARDED PHILOSOPHER MOUNT
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (3.33 grams, 25 mm).

Displaying the bald pate and bearded face of a Roman intellectual in profile right. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Found Essex, UK, before 2010.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Read, B., Metal Artefacts of Antiquity vol.1, Langport, 2001, fig.3 (13), for a similar mount.

CONDITION
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