1st century BC-1st century AD. A slender gold finger ring with acanthus-leaf scrolls to the shoulders, discoid bezel with claw setting, inset cameo with profile bust of Mercury wearing the petasos. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 165. 4.49 grams, 19.38mm overall, 17.46mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13) (3/4"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired by his father in the 1970s; thence by descent.