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Web Auction 24 3-6 Dec 2022
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UNCERTAIN. 2nd-4th centuries. Votive Mirror (Bronze, 30 mm, 9.83 g). H XA/PIC EI/MI ('I am the gratitude') in three lines. Rev. Blank. Leu Web Auction 14 (2020), 1186. Very fine.
From the Red Ox Collection and the collection of the Czech musician Adolf Picek (circa 1885-1978), and formerly in the possession of an Italian banker, whose life was saved by Mr. Picek in the Battles of the Piave River on the Italian Front in 1917-1918 and who presented his savior with 'four socks of old coins' in reward.
This lead planchet was probably part of a votive mirror, evidently for the goddess Aphrodite.
From the Red Ox Collection and the collection of the Czech musician Adolf Picek (circa 1885-1978), and formerly in the possession of an Italian banker, whose life was saved by Mr. Picek in the Battles of the Piave River on the Italian Front in 1917-1918 and who presented his savior with 'four socks of old coins' in reward.
This lead planchet was probably part of a votive mirror, evidently for the goddess Aphrodite.