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LOT 1826
Viking Age Bronze Pendant Hanger with Horse Heads
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (11.9 grams, 49 mm).
With suspension loop on a slender neck supporting two addorsed horse-heads with billets to the mane, void between the forelegs, transverse bar with six pierced roundels to the lower edge. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
LiteratureCf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, pl.LXV, for a less elaborate version of the type.
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