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LOT 0139
Roman Gold Ring with Hermes Gemstone
LATE 2ND-EARLY 3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (3.88 grams, 25.81 mm overall, 16.69 mm internal diameter (approximate size British H 1/2, USA 4, Europe 6.81, Japan 6)).
A hollow-formed gold finger ring with inset jasper intaglio of Mercury (Hermes) standing wearing a cloak, holding a caduceus in one hand and a coin-purse in the other.
Provenance
Swiss private collection.
with Geneve Encheres, Switzerland, 14 December 2017, lot 853.
English private collection.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 146, for type.
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