Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1316. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CENTRAL ITALY, Emilia(?). Late 4th to early 3rd century BC. Æ Ramo Secco (527.71 gm). Fragment of a bronze ingot. Branch with no leaves / Branch with no leaves. Thurlow & Vecchi AS 1; Haeberlin pl. 7, 6. VF, heavy green patina with earthen-brown encrustation. ($1500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.

The Ramo Secco cast ingots are the most common of the cast bars of the fourth and third centuries BC. Always found in fragments and subdivisions, they generally weigh anywhere from 500 grams to 2000 grams, normally with weak or missing designs. They are found predominantly in Emilia, hence the attribution to this city.