3rd century AD. A copper-alloy ring with carinated, openwork hoop with scrolls, expanding at the shoulders to an oval-shaped bezel set with a cut and polished garnet(?) with incuse design of an eagle standing left on a thunderbolt, wings spread, Victory wreath in beak, flanked by two military standards. Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 404, for type. 12.57 grams, 28.47mm overall, 20.50mm internal diameter (approximate size British W 1/2, USA 11 1/4, Europe 25.66, Japan 24) (1"). From the collection of a European gentleman living in South London; acquired 1970-1980.