MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN RING, SIZE 9 05/09/2023 Certificate of authenticity

Certificate of authenticity

size 10 1/2 with flat faced rounded edge band

Jewelry gift boxed with certificate of authenticity

9mm flat faced band

Iconic form and subject

MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN RING, SIZE 9 05/09/2023 Certificate of authenticity10th 15th century AD. Gilt bronze with 2. 9 band flaring to the banded shoulders and raised scalloped edge with raised circular bezel engraved with a cross in circular border. Crescents in the cross inner angles. See Ancient Rings, Polio p. 109 for another example, lacking the central cross motif. This example, clearly Christian, blends the pagan crescent symbols as was often done during the conversion period, thus probably dating this example to the