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LOT 0776
Roman Gold Hercules Knot Ring with Beads
1ST CENTURY A.D.
5/8 in. (0.99 grams, 17.07 mm overall, 15.75 mm internal diameter (approximate size British F 1/2, USA 3, Europe 4.3, Japan 4)).
With slender wire shank formed into a knot for the bezel, blue glass seed beads to the shoulders and a gold collar with applied granule detailing.
ProvenanceFrom a late Japanese specialist collector, 1970-2000s.
LiteratureCf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 214, for type.
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