LOT 4523
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 4523
Roman Glass Token.
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000€1,740 - 2,320 (for guidance only)$2,030 - 2,700 (for guidance only)
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Viking(?) AE Weight. Circa 9th century AD or later.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Shell on each corner of an uncertain square design. 31.65gr, 25mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex David Miller, Hemel Hempstead, London, UK. From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s. -
Byzantine Square AE Commercial Weight of 3 Unciae. Circa 4th-6th century AD.
Estimate: £1,200 - 1,700 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £600
Engraved in outline (and inlaid with silver) large cross between Γᴑ Γ; all beneath arch supported by two columns / Blank. Bendall 67. 80gr, 32mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen. Square commercial weight with edge of three tiers.
Private collection, Switzerland, 1990s. European private collection, acquired in 2001. -
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic AE Weight of 20 Shekel. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Bronze weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail and with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 58. 172gr, 53mm x 38mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
