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COMPORT, OPALINE GLASS BOWL, ROMAN COIN, SILVER STEM , AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN. 1837.
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COMPORT, GREEN OPALINE GLASS BOWL, SILVER STEM , AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN. 1837.Height 4-3/4 inches, diameter 7-1/2 inches.
Austro-Hungarian. 1837
Pale green opaline glass bowl with everted rim decorated with yellow and white enamel and with a gilded border. The center is set with a silver denarius coin from the Roman republic with the head of L. Sempronius Pitio, c.148 BCE. A similar coin is in the coin collection at Harvard University.
The silver stem is marked with the Austrian standard of 13 loth and the date 1837.
Condition; Minor wear to yellow enamel on the rim.