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Lead Sealing
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Two concave shells hinged, folded over, and joined together. Inside, a small bronze coin (diam: 8mm), illegible but apparently a minimus of the type issued during the second half of the fifth century CE before the currency reform of Anastasius.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Transfer from the Alice Corinne McDaniel Collection Department of the Classics Harvard University
Title: Lead Sealing
Description:
Two concave shells hinged, folded over, and joined together.
Inside, a small bronze coin (diam: 8mm), illegible but apparently a minimus of the type issued during the second half of the fifth century CE before the currency reform of Anastasius.
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