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Estimate
GBP (£) 380 - 480
EUR (€) 440 - 560
USD ($) 510 - 640
£210 (EUR 243; USD 281) (+bp*)
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1/4 - 1/2 in. (2.9 grams total, 9-13 mm).
Including profile bust, advancing lion, two fish and other types; each supplied with a museum-quality impression. [6]
PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Kaić, I. ‘Engraved gems as part of the Augustan Propaganda. Some example from Croatia’ in Milićević Bradač, M., Demicheli, D. The century of the brave, Roman conquest and indigenous resistance in Illyricum during the time of Augustus and his heirs, proceedings of the international conference Zagreb, 22-26,9,2014 Zagreb, 2018, figs.5,8, for similar.
FOOTNOTES:
One of the rings, representing a Sea horse with trident swimming beside a dolphin, could be connected with the Legio X Fretensis, whose symbol was Netptun and the dolphin, adopted after the battle of Actium.
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