A fragment of amorphous form, decorated in relief with scrolling tendrils and anthemion, painted egg-and-dart ornament above, surmounted by moulded bands and a frieze of meander and chequerboard panels; remains of red and black painted pigment.

Formed as the bust of Eros looking upwards, stub wings to his shoulders, holding a goose to his chest; conical socket above each wing; eyes with silver inserts; old collector's label '1994 51.75' to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand; likely a socket base.

Comprising a rectangular plate, richly decorated with embossed laurel leaves in a grid, framed with raised bosses, the buckle loop comprising opposing dragons with open mouths, holding a spherical tongue-rest, another pair of smaller dragon heads to base, the tongue with a smaller pair of punch-decorated dragon heads.

Hemispherical in form, repoussé interior displaying graduated concentric registers of stylised and mythical animals within tessellating cartouches; a low relief mesomphalos decorated with rosette at centre; geometric ornament around the rim.

Displaying a corrugated rim above and below; two advancing soldiers, each striding forwards over the headless body of a dead enemy, carrying a severed head in each hand; the soldiers shown bearded and each wearing a pointed and segmented helmet with a recess to accommodate the ears, a cuirass and thigh-length tunic, with a bow over one shoulder and a sword slung from a waist belt; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Of penannular form with expanded sections at the centre and to both shoulders.

Comprising a rectangular headplate with two panels of chip-carved Style I ornament, flanking a beast-head with triangular muzzle and two pellet eyes, raised three-sided frame and outer band of pellets above beast-heads with lentoid eyes; the shallow bow with raised median rib, flanges to the edges and punched pellet detailing; footplate with beast-head between curved pellet lines, pierced horse-head lappets, lozengiform central panel with knot of Style I limbs; two lateral discs, one pierced to accept a stud and the other with a domed stud in place; the finial a disc with human mask inverted; pin-lug and part of catch to the reverse.

Displaying chased panels populated with Style I zoomorphs and geometric forms, borders of annulets, raised masks to the upper corners of the headplate; applied discoid boss to bow decorated with a rosette, addorsed beast heads below; extensive remains of gilding; pin lug and catchplate to reverse and remains of ancient repair, lower part absent.

Comprising a round-section crescent with flared ends terminating in two curved spatulate flat panels, each with a ropework border surrounding a two-band knotwork motif; cleaned and conserved.

The weeping Virgin with her head bowed to the left and hands raised to her chest on a dotted gilt background, an expression of pain on her delicately formed face; wearing a white veil and a black long-sleeved robe, the veil arranged as a headdress and covering her hair; on wood and mounted in a later carved wooden architectural frame.

Shown beneath an arcade, offering his cloak on the end of his sword to the beggar at his feet; polychrome detailing; repaired with lead cames and held in a wooden frame.

Composed from irregular painted panels bearing mainly foliage designs and figural elements; Mary crowned and enthroned with infant Jesus on her knee, in a lobed vesica-shaped panel held with lead cames; mounted in a wooden frame with modern replacements.

Carved in the half-round with a frieze composed of interlaced foliage with two rows of acanthus leaves and foliage scrolls, framing a lion's head on one side and a human head on the other, remains of lion's mane to the third; drilled holes to the raised surfaces and sockets for the insertion of decorative stones.

The bar with central D-shaped block pierced vertically by a stud surmounted by the suspension loop, with four pierced flanges to the underside; the frame in two sections, the larger a U-shaped rod with pivot for the bar, the smaller pivoting within the inner face, both pierced on the inner face; the block inscribed to one face with capital S and to the other with intersecting Vs; the bar inscribed to one face in capitals 'A DOMINI TECVM' and to the other in coarsely incised capitals 'AVEMARIA G[R]ACIAPLE[NA]'; the smaller rod inscribed in capitals 'CREATOREN CELI ET TERRE ET IN [IES]VN'; the larger inscribed with a band of scrolled decoration and the text in Lombardic capitals 'SOLI DEO HONOR ET GLORIA'; the accompanying letter discusses the texts (1) Ave Maria G[r]acia ple[n]a Dominus Tecum 'Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord [is] with thee'; (2) Soli Deo Honor et Gloria 'Honour and glory to God alone'; (3) Creatorem celi et terrae et inferum 'creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus'. The intersecting Vs may form a monogram for A[ve] M[aria]; the 1847 letter describes the findspot as 'found at Kirkleavington near Yarm in the sill of a brook' in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

Gold hoop and discoid bezel with incuse ropework border; incuse image of a bird of prey perching with wings spread and head turned; blackletter incuse and reversed inscription in an arc above the bird's head and pinions '·al : for : ye : best ·' (all for the best); repair to hoop.

Or a leg ring inscribed '+Earle of Rutland' in derivative black letter script, for a female merlin or sparrow hawk (due to the youth of Edmund Plantagenet who died aged 17); the ring with a convex interior face.

Displaying large flower heads, foliage and a skull to the outer face, enhanced with black enamelling; interior inscribed in a cursive script 'In god alone wee two are one', together with possible maker's stamps 'D' and 'F' in two rectangular cartouches.

Composed of a gently carinated hoop, the interior inscribed in cursive script 'Love is the bond of pease'.

Composed of a decoratively notched hoop divided into chased rhomboidal panels displaying foliate tendrils and horizontal hatching alternately; the interior inscribed in Roman capitals with the Latin phrase: 'x x x x VIVE x VT x VIVAS'.

Set comprising gold five pounds, two pounds, sovereign and half sovereign. Obvs: profile bust with GEORGIVS VI D G BR OMN REX F D IND IMP legends. Revs: St George and dragon; date in exergue; with original Royal Mint hinged red leatherette case of issue.

Mitchiner, Michael, Oriental Coins and Their Values I - The World of Islam, reprint, Hawkins, 2000; hardback; fully illustrated. 1.9 kg, 30 x 22 cm

Good condition; slightly loose as usual. A good reference.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Price, Martin Jessop, The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus - a British Museum Catalogue, BM/SNS, 1991; Volume 1 - text and catalogue, Volume 2 - indexes and plates; hardback with dustwrappers; fully illustrated. 3.3 kg total, 30 x 21.5 cm each

Very good condition; dustwrappers slightly damaged. A standard reference.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Burnett, Andrew, Amandry, Michel and Ripolles, Pere Pau, Roman Provincial Coinage I - 44 BC - AD 69, Part I: Introduction and Catalogue and Part II: Indexes and Plates; BM, 1992; hardback; fully illustrated. 4.2 kg total, 28 x 22.5 cm each

Near fine condition. The standard reference.

Ex libris Simon Bendall (with bookplates and signatures) and Ian Roper.

di Scarfea, Cesare Gamberini, Prontuario Prezzario, 2nd edition, Forni, 1969; hardback; illustrated. 547 grams, 22 x 14.5 cm

Good condition.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Hazlitt, W. Carew, The Coinage of the European Continent, Swan, 1893; hardback; illustrated. 1 kg, 21.5 x 14.5 cm

Good condition; slight wear to spine. Still useful.

Ex libris Salford Library (with bookplate and stamps) and Ian Roper.

Seaby, H. A. and King, C. E. (volume V only), Roman Silver Coins, Volume I - the Republic to Augustus, volume II - Tiberius to Commodus, volume III - Pertinax to Balbinus & Pupienus, volume IV - Gordian III to Postumus, volume V - Carausius to Romulus Augustus, Seaby, various editions and dates; hardback, volumes II, III and V with dustwrappers; fully illustrated. 2.1 kg total, 22.2 x 14.5 cm each

Good to fine condition; some ink stamps and labels. An essential reference.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Plant, Richard, Arabic Coins and How to Read Them, 2nd edition reprint, Spink, 2000; paperback; illustrated. 211 grams, 21.5 x 14.3 cm

Very good condition. Useful.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Dattari, G., Monete Imperiali Greche Numi Augg. Alexandrini Catalogo della Collezione G. Dattari, reprint, Forni, 1969; hardback; illustrated; with a non-matching part slip case. 2.28 kg, 32 x 24 cm

Reading copy; spine detached, binding broken. Scarce.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Mitchiner, Michael, Indo-Greek and Scythian Coinage, volumes 1 to 9; paperback; illustrated. 5 kg total, 31 x 21 cm each



Ex libris Ian Roper.

Lindgren, Henry Clay and Kovacs, Frank L. Ancient Bronze Coins of Asia Minor and the Levant from the Lundgren Collection, San Francisco SU, 1985; pictorial paperback (plates section has been separated from the text) WITH Lindgren, Henry Clay, Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European Mints from the Lindgren Collection, Chrysopylon, 1989; hardback with dustwrapper WITH Lindgren, Henry Clay, Lindgren III - Ancient Greek Bronze Coins from the Lindgren Collection, Chrysopylon, 1993; hardback; all fully illustrated. 3.23 kg total, 27 x 21 - 28.5 x 22 cm

Good condition.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Spink, Standard Catalogue of British Coins - Coins of England & the United Kingdom, 2009, 2011; pictorial hardback, illustrated, WITH Spink, Standard Catalogue of British Coins - Coins of England & the United Kingdom - Decimal Issues, 2017; pictorial paperback; illustrated. 2.5 kg total, 22 x 14.5 cm

Fair to very good condition.

Ex libris Ian Roper.

Lindgren, Henry Clay, Ancient Greek Bronze Coins: European Mints from the Lindgren Collection, Chrysopylon, 1989; hardback with dustwrapper; fully illustrated. 974 grams, 29 x 21.7 cm

Good condition; dustwrapper sunned and slightly damaged.

Ex libris Ian Roper.