Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2768. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $480. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Jewelry and Ornaments] ROMAN. Bronze fertility amulet. Circa 1st-3rd century AD. Length 58mm. Cast bronze triple “good luck charm”, with hand and thumb “fig” gesture, phallus and pudenda virilia. Square hanger for wearing, lower loop for a pendant. See D. Morris, Bodyguards, pages 158-159. Dark green patina. A graphic ancient fertility amulet.