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LOT 1307
Viking Age Bronze Mount with Scrolls
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (4.12 grams, 27 mm).
In relief with concentric pecked borders. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
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