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LOT 0734

Sold for (Inc. bp): £182

ROMAN SILVER VOTIVE FIGURE OF THE GOD MERCURY
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (4.7 grams, 29 mm).

Modelled in the round, wearing a tightly-wrapped toga, his left arm bent and hand gripping the marsupium bag of coins; with full beard and hair parted neatly at the rear. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the 1980s.
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

CONDITION
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