LOT 4226
Roman PB Token. After 1st century AD.
Uncertain design / Bird flighting to right. Condition as seen.(31.21gr, 26mm.).
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s
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Levant & the Near East Zoomorphic Bronze Weight. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1100 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Hare or rabbit crouching to right / Blank. Not in the standard references. 4.55gr, 20mm x 11mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex S collection, London, UK, deceased; formed 1970s-1990s. -
Ottoman Polyhedral Bronze Weight of 5 Dirham. 18th-19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Fourteen-sided cubic weight with six large square facets, and eight triangle facets; one square facet with five punches. Cf. CPAI 1, 393-399 (no punches). 15.45gr, 13mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired on the London art market in the late 1980s-1990s. From the family collection of an East London, UK, gentleman. -
Byzantine Spherical Commercial Bronze Weight of 1 Uncia. Circa 5th-7th Century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
ɄA (A inverted) inlaid in silver / Blank. Bendall, Byzantine Weights 23 (A not inverted). 27.44gr, 19mm x 15mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
