LOT 4541
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 4541
Roman Glass Token.
Estimate £1,200 - 1,700€1,390 - 1,970 (for guidance only)$1,620 - 2,300 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£650 (EUR 754; USD 878) ‡+BP*
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Uncertain PB 'Hystera' Medallion. Circa 10th century AD. Holy Rider type.
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £40
Blundered legend around; holy rider to right, holding spear, impaling and trampling prostrate female serpentine demon below; to right, angel / 'Hystera,' against hatched cross, with eight serpents comprising four pairs of confronted serpents. Cf. H. Björklund, "Protecting Against Child-Killing Demons: Uterus Amulets in the Late Antique and Byzantine Magical World," Department of World Cultures. University of Helsinki, Finland (2017) (for discussion); cf. J. Spier, "Medieval Byzantine Amulets and their Tradition," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 56 (1993), 21, pl. 2b (for similar). 14.87gr, 42mm, 12h.
Condition as seen. Bent.
Acquired on the European coin market. Property of a Kent, UK, gentleman. -
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Roman Terracotta Seal. Circa 2nd-3rd century AD.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Laureate male head (Septimius Severus?) to right; two stars before / Blank. 2.25gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s. -
Honorius and Theodosius II AE Exagium Solidi Weight. AD 395-423.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (‡+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £125
Diademed and draped facing busts of Honorius, on the left, and Theodosius II, on the right; between them above, cross / Blank. Bendall -; CPAI -; Pondera Online 4232 var. (cross above right smaller bust). 4.36gr, 15mm.
Condition as seen. Bronze weight covered with repoussé brass leaf. Very rare.
Ex D.F.G., Numismatica Monacencies, Munich, Germany.
