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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]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1980s. Ex North West London collection. English private collection.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 344, for type.
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