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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Medieval Bronze Folding AE Coin Balance. 15th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
A small folding scales beam balance for weighing coins and similar low weight items; the T-shaped centre section for holding the balance while in use, with two hinged arms ending in rings to receive scale pans on cords. See Geoff Egan, 'The Medieval Household', fig. 142 and no. 1055. 6.06gr, 37mm.
Condition as seen.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector. From his private collection since the 1970s; thence by descent circa 2000. Ex private collection of a Bedfordshire gentleman. -
Levant & the Near East Bronze Weight of Half Shekel. Iron Age, after 900 BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Relief of deity's head, possibly Astarte, with tall headdress; all on cubical base. For a similar weight cf. Hendin 184. 4.91gr, 10mm x 10mm x10mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Large Medieval 'Thames' Pewter Double Tax Seal. Circa 14th-15th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Three crowns flanked by initials 'D(?)A' and legend to the border 'C[..]ON{..}VYTS • CO[...]' / Lion rampant within a beaded border with legend '[...]VYTS * COD[...]'. 33.76gr, 47mm, 2h.
Condition as seen. Conjoined roundels with folded strap.
Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, 1980s. Property of a Chester, UK, private collector.
