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The Coin Galleries: Gold Bracteates

These thin gold discs were used to decorate the funerary garments of royal personages before burial.

Bracteate in style of Kanishka II gold dinar (G 634, obverse)
Weight: 0.59 gm., Diam: 23 mm.

Bracteate in style of Kanishka II gold dinar (G 634, reverse)
Weight: 0.55 gm., Diam: 24 mm.

Gold bracteate #1
Weight: 1.13 gm., Diam: 25 mm.

Gold bracteate #2
Weight: 0.59 gm., Diam: 25 mm.

Gold bracteate #3
Weight: 0.53 gm., Diam: 22 mm.

Gold bracteate #4
Weight: 0.87 gm., Diam: 20 mm.

Gold bracteate #5
Weight: 1.87 gm. (including loop on reverse), Diam: 24 mm.
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