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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Auction Highlights:
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
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.jpg "Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Southern (?) Italian mint. DIVOS IVLIVS, wreathed head of Divus Julius Caesar to right / CAESAR DIVI • F, bare head of Octavian to right, with slight beard. RPC I, 620; Crawford 535/1; CRI 308; BMCRR Gaul 105. 15.64gr, 30mm, 9h
Good Very Fine. Tooled and smoothed.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Good Very Fine. Tooled and smoothed.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Military mint moving with Antony; struck autumn 32 - spring 31 BC. Legionary type. ANT AVG III VIR • R • P • C, praetorian galley to right / Legionary aquila between two signa; LEG II across fields. Crawford 544/14; CRI 349; BMCRR East 190; RSC 27. 2.46gr, 16mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?); struck 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head to right / S•P•Q•R CL•V in two lines on round shield (clipeus virtutis). RIC I 42a; BMCRE 333-4 = BMCRR Gaul 128-9; RSC 294; BN 1311. 3.59gr, 21mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine. Beautifully toned; minor areas of corrosion.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman; Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Spring Sale 2020, 25 May 2020, lot 815 (dealer's ticket included); Ex Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 90, 4 June 2012, lot 323.
Near Extremely Fine. Beautifully toned; minor areas of corrosion.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman; Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Spring Sale 2020, 25 May 2020, lot 815 (dealer's ticket included); Ex Auktionshaus H. D. Rauch GmbH, Auction 90, 4 June 2012, lot 323.
Lugdunum mint; struck 10-6 BC. CAES[AR PONT] MAX, laureate head to right / ROM ET AVG, front elevation of the Altar of Lugdunum, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, flanked by stylised male figures; to left and right, Victories on columns, facing one another. RIC I 230; BMCRE 550. 10.02gr, 26mm, 2h
Near Very Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.
Near Very Fine.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 36-37. "Tribute Penny" type. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head to right / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia, as Pax, seated to left, holding long vertical sceptre and branch, on chair with ornamented legs above one exergual line. RIC I 30 corr. (ornamented legs); BMCRE 48; RSC 16a. 3.63gr, 18mm, 1h
Extremely Fine. Darkly toned.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.
Extremely Fine. Darkly toned.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.
Lugdunum mint, struck AD 12-14. [TI CAESAR] AVGVST F IMPERAT VII, laureate head to right / Front elevation of the Altar of Lugdunum, decorated with the corona civica between laurels and stylised male figures, Victories on columns to left and right facing one another; ROM ET AVG in exergue. RIC I 245 (Augustus); Cohen 37; BMCRE 585 (Augustus). 10.04gr, 25mm, 5h
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Lugdunum mint. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head to right / TR POT XVII, Tiberius, laureate and cloaked, standing in slow quadriga to right, holding laurel branch and eagle-tipped sceptre; IMP VII in exergue. For prototype: RIC 4; Lyon 122; BMCRE 7; RSC 48. 4.22gr, 19mm, 9h
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Rome mint; struck AD 37-38. NERO ET DRVSVS CAESARES, Nero and Drusus Caesar on horseback riding to right, cloaks flying behind them / C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT around large S • C. RIC I 34 (Gaius); BMCRE 44. 16.27gr, 28mm, 5h
Very Fine. Smoothed.
Ex German art market, 2000s; Acquired from an EU collector living in London; From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Very Fine. Smoothed.
Ex German art market, 2000s; Acquired from an EU collector living in London; From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Lugdunum mint. Struck AD 66. IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR P P P, bare head to left, small globe at point of bust / GENIO AVGVSTI, Genius standing to left, holding cornucopiae with left hand and sacrificing out of patera over lighted altar with right; S C across fields. RIC I 534; BMCRE 371. 10.64gr, 27mm, 6h
Near Very Fine. Light green patina.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Near Very Fine. Light green patina.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Lugdunum mint; struck AD 66. [IMP] NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TR P P P, bare head to right / Victory alighting to left, holding shield inscribed S P Q R; S C across fields. RIC I 543; Cohen 302; BMCRE 381. 11.13gr, 30mm, 6h
Very Fine. Nice dark olive green patina.
From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.
Very Fine. Nice dark olive green patina.
From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.
Unrecorded Variant of Very Rare Type
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
Ephesus mint; struck AD 69-70. IMP CAES VESPAS AVG, laureate head to right / CONCORDIA AVG, Ceres seated to left on throne, holding grain ears and poppy with right hand and cornucopia with left; sideways Φ under throne. RIC II.2 1400 var. (Φ in exergue); BMCRE -, cf. 434; RPC II 809 var. (same); RSC 65c var. (same). 3.19gr, 18mm, 6h
Good Very Fine. Unpublished variant of this very rare type.
Ex German art market, 2000s; Acquired from an EU collector living in London; From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Good Very Fine. Unpublished variant of this very rare type.
Ex German art market, 2000s; Acquired from an EU collector living in London; From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
ΛVTOKP KΛICΛP OVЄCΠΛCIΛNOC CЄBΛ, laureate head to right / Victory standing to right, holding wreath with right hand and palm on left shoulder. RPC II 1659; Sydenham, Caesarea 94; Metcalf 17. 1.45gr, 14mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Ex Reeman Dansie, Colchester; Acquired at UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector.
Very Fine.
Ex Reeman Dansie, Colchester; Acquired at UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector.
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