Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

GD (Gay) mint; uncertain date. Crowned bust to right / Fire altar with ribbons and attendants; star and crescent flanking flames; date to left, mint to right. Cf. SC Tehran 2613-6. 4.00gr, 30mm, 2h

Near Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Five silver Drachms of the Sassanian kingdom. 20.99gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Four silver Drachms of the Parthian dynasty. 17.11gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Five silver Drachms of the Sassanian kingdom. 20.88gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Five silver Drachms of the Parthian dynasty. 21.28gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Five silver Drachms of the Parthian dynasty. 20.37gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Five silver Drachms of the Parthian dynasty. 20,55gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Five silver Drachms of the Parthian dynasty. 21.11gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Five silver Drachms of the Parthian dynasty. 20.44gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Alexandria mint. Series 5B. Horned head of Zeus-Ammon to right, wearing taenia with basileion / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ, eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt; filleted cornucopia to left, monogram of XP between legs. CPE B396; Svoronos 965; SNG Copenhagen 173-5. 33.81gr, 36mm, 12h

Good Very Fine. Attractive dark olive green patina.

From an old European collection, 1980s; Property of a London antiquarian.

Alexandria mint; dated RY 20 (33/2 BC). Diademed head of Ptolemy I to right, wearing aegis / [ΠΤΟΛΕΜ]ΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, eagle with closed wings standing to left on thunderbolt, palm frond over shoulder; to left, L K (date) [above headdress of Isis]; ΠΑ to right. Svoronos 1834; SNG Copenhagen 416; DCA 70. 13.83gr, 26mm, 12h

Near Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman; From Den of Antiquity Int Ltd, dealer's ticket included.

First Punic War. Head of Kore to left, wearing wreath of corn ears / Horse standing to right; radiate sun disk flanked by uraei above, Punic letter 'alef' in right field. CNP 46a; MAA -. 10.87gr, 25mm, 6h

Very Fine. Beautiful olive green patina.

Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.