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LOT 0690
Roman Bronze Mount in the Shape of a Star
3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (21.8 grams, 51 mm).
Modelled as an eight-pointed star, rectangular loop and two studs to the reverse.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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