Insert for Wedding Ring

CNG 99, Lot: 1317. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Circa 3rd-4th centuries AD. Square AV Repoussé Plaquette Insert for Wedding Ring (14mm, 0.39 g, 12h). Female, wearing stephane and stola, standing right, clasping right hands with togate male standing left; OMONOI/A in two lines above; all within square laurel wreath border / Incuse of obverse. Cf. Fortuna Fine Arts Gift of the Gods FPL (1992), no. 133 (for similar plaquette, but with crossed right hands and set in ring). As made.