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LOT 0154
Roman Child's Ring with Emerald
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
1/2 in. (1.22 grams, 13.23 mm overall, 10.74 mm internal diameter).
Integral flat bezel with inset green emerald.
ProvenancePrivate English collection, formed between the late 1970s and early 1990s.
Private collection, UK.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, items 199, 202, for type.
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