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LOT 0637
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]
ProvenanceFound Essex, UK, before 2010.
LiteratureCf. Read, B., Metal Artefacts of Antiquity vol.1, Langport, 2001, fig.3 (13), for a similar mount.
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