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LOT 0624
Roman Bronze Hare Plate Brooch
2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (6.9 grams, 31 mm).
With silvered finish, legs extended and head reversed, pin-lug and catch to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex DRG Coins and Antiquities, Essex, UK.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
Literature
Cf. Hattatt, R., Iron Age and Roman Brooches, Oxford, 1985, item 612.
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