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LOT 0417
Romano-Egyptian Silver Snake Ring
ROMAN PERIOD, 30 B.C.-323 A.D.
1 1/8 in. (8.46 grams, 30.47 mm overall, 22.76 mm internal diameter (approximate size British Z, USA 12 1/2, Europe 28.77, Japan 27)).
Of coiled circular form with crescent decorated body, the head with ring-and-dot eyes and v-shaped nose. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Sussex, UK, private collection.
Property of a Buckinghamshire, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 117, for type.
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