LOT 4180
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 4180
Roman Glass Token.
Estimate £1,200 - 1,700€1,390 - 1,970 (for guidance only)$1,620 - 2,300 (for guidance only)
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Roman Glass Tessera. 3rd-4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Lion standing to right, head to left / Blank. 1.67gr, 16mm.
Condition as seen.
From the private collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999. -
Islamic Glass Weight or Jeton. Circa 6th-10th century AD.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £44
Illegible inscription apparently beginning with 'In the name of God' / Blank. 7.56gr, 35mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic AE Weight of 3 Shekel. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Bronze weight in shape of a duck, with head turned towards the tail and with flat base. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 62 (hematite stylised duck). 24.30gr, 43mm x 18mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
