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LOT 0091
Roman Silver-Gilt Military Strap End
CIRCA LATE 3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 1/2 in. (39.8 grams total, 64-65 mm).
Comprising scalloped outer faces, shallow dashed borders framing scrolling vines with gilt leaves to one face and horizontal bar of conjoined ellipses with pelta finial and pecked borders to the other, also with gilt elements. [2]
ProvenanceEx German art market in the late 1990s.
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