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Coin Weight
Byzantine
Early Byzantine Period
5th–7th century
Object Place: Byzantine, Middle East
Medium/Technique
Metal; bronze
Dimensions
Other (Height x Width x Depth): 13.58 × 13.89 × 3.04 mm (9/16 × 9/16 × 1/8 in.)
Weight: 4.36 gm
Weight: 4.36 gm
Credit Line
Henry Lillie Pierce Fund
Accession Number01.8295
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsMetalwork
DescriptionA square weight. The weight of one gold coin is engraved as N (or ‘one nomisma’).
Provenance1899, sale, Helbing, Munich, lot 425, to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), Boston; 1901, sold by Warren to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1901)