Three Provincial Weights

Tetralitron = 4 Librae

CNG 105, Lot: 569. Estimate $500. Sold for $1555. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MOESIA INFERIOR, Tomis. 2nd-3rd centuries AD. PB 4 Librae – Tetralitron Weight (125x127mm, 1223g, 12h). Galley left; TETPA above, ΛE[ITPO]N below / Cantharus; ΔIKAI above, ON in exergue; retrograde ΛIKO to left, retrograde ITA to right. P. Weiss, “Von Perinth in die Dobrudscha, nach Bithynienund Westkleinasien. Regionale und überregionale Gestaltungsweisen bei den Marktgewichten in der Kaiserzeit,” Chiron 35 (2005), p. 414 and Fig. 5 (this weight); Rochesnard, –; Tekin –. VF, brown and gray patina, earthen encrustation.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 175 (9 March 2009), lot 338; Gorny & Mosch 122 (10 March 2003), lot 2423.