6th-7th centuries AD. Æ 6 ounce circular commercial weight (50x12mm, 159.05 g).Electronic Auction 511 Byzantine, Bronze Sold For $ 600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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6th-7th centuries AD. Æ 6 ounce circular commercial weight (50x12mm, 159.05 g). Lathe-finished circular weight with silver inlaid legend: + OΛYBPIOY + (eight-rayed star) C / Blank, but with traces of stippled design of cross set on tendrils. Cf. Bendall, Weights, 113-4 (for type); CPAI –; cf. Geneva 262 (same). Brown patina, some roughness and a few scratches, hard green encrustation on edge. VF. Good preservation of the inlay. |