Details
LOT 4226
Roman PB Token. After 1st century AD.
Uncertain design / Bird flighting to right. Condition as seen.(31.21gr, 26mm.).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s
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