Details
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.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
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