LOT 3557
Viking(?) Button-Like Bronze Weight. Circa 9th-11th century AD.
Bronze button-like weight with a protruding 'turret' and crescent patterns on one side. Condition as seen.(4.91gr, 14mm x 7mm.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
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Babylonian Sphendonoid Hematite Weight of 5 Shekels. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Grain-shaped weight stone with flat base. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, p.137, 9. 45.53gr, 41mm x 22mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s. -
Ottoman(?) Cylindrical Lead Weight of 5 Dirhams. Possibly after 15th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Cylindrical lead weight inscribed on one base. 14.22gr, 13mm x 11mm.
Condition as seen.
Ex London, UK, gentleman, 1990. -
Phoenician Bronze Weight of Half Shekel. Late Bronze Age, circa 1500-1200 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Truncated snake-head or teardrop weight with flat bases. Cf. Hendin, Ancient Scale and Weights, 104 (hematite; one Shekel) and 107 (2/3 Shekel). 4.50gr, 17mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
