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LOT 0764
Roman Silvered Bronze Mirror
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
3 3/4 in. (97 grams, 94 mm).
Discoid with circumferential band of pierced circles, one face featuring a series of concentric circles; the other plain with remains of tinning.
ProvenanceAcquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
Cf. The British Museum, museum number 1854,0425.4, for a similar Romano-British example.
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