LOT 3541
Roman Glass Token. 1st century AD.
Possibly Alexandria, Egypt. Radiate male head to right / Kerykeion between two grain ears and two poppies; L HI (date) across upper fields. Condition as seen. Edge chipped.(0.97gr, 17mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1994.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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LOT 3541
Roman Glass Token.
Estimate £1,800 - 2,400€2,090 - 2,780 (for guidance only)$2,430 - 3,240 (for guidance only)
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Seleukis and Pieria, Laodicea ad Mare(?) Commercial PB Weight of 1/2 Mna or Hemimnaion. Circa 150-149 BC.
Estimate: £180 - 240 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £90
ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣ (Apollonios), agoranomos. Dated Seleucid Era 163 (150/149 BC). ΑΠΟΛΛധΝΙΟΥ Τ Ο Υ TA[...]OY [...] ꞀΞΡ (date) in five lines, two crossed cornucopiae below, monogram(?) to left / Blank (letters in central field?). Pondera Online -; Weiß Peter, Jenseits der Agoranomie -; Rochesnard -; CPAI -. 362gr, 93mm x 70mm.
Condition as seen. Suspension tab.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Ottoman Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 50 Dirhams. Circa 18th-19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Polyhedral bronze weight with blank faces. Pondera Online 11388. 153gr, 28mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Ottoman Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 10 Dirham. 17th-18th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £364
Polyhedral bronze weight; tughra on one side. Cf. Kürkman 143. 30.17gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
