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E-Sale 66  9 Jan 2020
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Lot 663

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 400 GBP
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Silk Road Region, local issue AV Bracteate. Circa 5th-8th centuries AD. Imitating Lupa Romana types of the Roman Empire. Stylised she-wolf standing left, suckling Romulus and Remus below; confronting heads above; all within pelleted border / As obverse. For another Lupa Romana bracteate type, cf. V. Raspopova, "Gold Coins and bracteates from Pendjikent, " in Coins, Art, and Chronology (Vienna, 1999), fig. 8. 1.54g, 22mm.

Virtually as made; jewelry loop attached.

From a private UK collection.
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