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LOT 0289
Viking Cased Bronze Trade Scales with Weights and Hack
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 - 1 1/4 in. (1 kg total, 0.9-33 cm).
Scales with triple-ring chains, distributor hubs and three chains to each dish, voided handle and gnomon; case formed as two hemispheres with securing clasps to the rim; set of nine bronze barrel-shaped trade weights with punched detailing and identification marks to the flat faces; five silver dirhem coins and thirteen cut halves; two fragments of sheet gold, one with applied filigree tendrils; three hacked pieces of D-section ingot; a silver terminal with beast-head and three convergent bands; two beast-head terminals for a bracelet; six pieces of hacked silver ornament; supplied with a custom-made stand. [43, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
Literature
See Graham-Campbell, J & Philpott, R., The Huxley Viking Hoard - Scandinavian Settlement in the North West, Liverpool, 2009, for discussion of a silver hoard.
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LOT 0289
Viking Cased Bronze Trade Scales with Weights and Hack
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
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