10-24-2012, 02:37 AM
This is the problem with buying items that have no provenance. It could be a repaired hinge from a segmentata but it could also be part of a lid from WW1, or anything in between. On what is the dealer basing his information on? There is no value to the piece now because it has no historical context to tell its story. Where it was found, what was found with it... It's not like a coin that can tell a story on it's own by its legends and mint marks. If you read the articles linked here and on the other message board you posted on you would see that your piece doesn't match any of the known examples that are published. For me I would send it back.
"The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones"
Antony
The good is oft interred with their bones"
Antony
