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LOT 0693
Roman Silver Ring with Radiating Sun
MID 3RD CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (4.61 grams, 23.30 mm overall, 18.60 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Q 1/2, USA 8 1/4, Europe 18.12, Japan 17)).
A silver finger ring with gusseted panels to the equator, facetted shoulders, stepped hexagonal bezel with incuse sunburst motif. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1980s. Ex North West London collection. English private collection.
LiteratureCf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 344, for type.
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