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Roman style Gold Ring with Minerva Intaglio Roman style Gold Ring with Minerva Intaglio Roman style Gold Ring with Minerva Intaglio
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LOT 1953

Roman style Gold Ring with Minerva Intaglio

CIRCA 18TH CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (3.45 grams, 23.48 mm overall, 20.69 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T, USA 9 1/2, Europe 21.26, Japan 20)).

With slender hoop and granule cluster at junction with the bezel, rectangular cell with inset glass intaglio profile bust of helmetted Minerva; supplied with a museum-quality impression. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a private Tyneside collection, formed since the early 2000s.

Literature

Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 447, for type.

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LOT 1953

Roman style Gold Ring with Minerva Intaglio

Sold for (Inc. bp): £195

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