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THE PROPERTY OF A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A ROMAN GOLD AND AMETHYST FINGER RING
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Details
A ROMAN GOLD AND AMETHYST FINGER RING
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The plain hollow hoop flat on the interior, rounded on the exterior, expanding at the shoulders to the raised oval bezel, the slightly convex oval stone engraved with Mercury, depicted nude and beardless, a club in his lowered hand, leaning against a column, with a ram's head on a plate in his extended hand
1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) wide; ring size 3½
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
The plain hollow hoop flat on the interior, rounded on the exterior, expanding at the shoulders to the raised oval bezel, the slightly convex oval stone engraved with Mercury, depicted nude and beardless, a club in his lowered hand, leaning against a column, with a ram's head on a plate in his extended hand
1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) wide; ring size 3½
Provenance
with Derek J. Content, England, 1999.