Details
LOT 3555
Viking Truncated Spherical Bronze Weight. 9th-11th century AD.
Truncated spherical bronze weight with five pellets on one side and ten pellets on the other. Cf. Weber, K. Byzantinische Münzgewichte: Materialkorpus für 1-Nomisma-Gewichte, Schwelm, 2009. Condition as seen.(20.41gr, 21mm x 10mm.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
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