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'.

Lugdunum mint; struck AD 77-78. "Judaea Capta" commemorative. IMP CAES VESPASIAN [...], laureate head to right / IVDAEA CAPTA, Judaea seated to right on cuirass in attitude of mourning, surrounded by arms, resting her head on her left hand; behind, palm tree. Cf. RIC II.1 1233; cf. Cohen 240. 10.64gr, 28mm, 6h

Near Very Fine.

Property of a Wiltshire, UK, collector.

Rome mint; struck AD 95-96. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XV, laureate head to right / IMP XXII COS XVII CENS P P P, Minerva standing to left, holding spear with right hand. RIC II.1 790; BMCRE 235; RSC 290. 3.32gr, 18mm, 6h

Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 84-85. Rhino standing to left / IMP DOMIT AVG GERM around S • C. RIC II.2 250; Cohen 676; BMCRE 498. 3.37gr, 18mm, 6h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, collector.

Rome mint. Gryphon to left, touching wheel with front paw / Tripod; S C across fields. RIC II 28. 1.77gr, 15mm, 7h

Very Fine.

From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Rome mint; struck AD 97. Possibly contemporary imitation. IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P II COS III P P, laureate head to right / FORTVNA AVGVST, Fortuna standing facing, head to left, holding cornucopiae and rudder. RIC II 28; BMCRE 57; RSC 71. 3.16gr, 17mm

Near Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 103-107. IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P, laureate head to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, Virtus standing to right, holding spear and parazonium, with foot on helmet. RIC II 204; BMCRE 230 corr.; Woytek 197b; RSC 402a. 3.19gr, 18mm, 7h

Near Extremely Fine. Toned; scratches and areas of delamination.

From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Rome mint; struck AD 114-117. [IMP CAES TRAIAN] AVG GERM, laureate bust of Hercules to right, draped with lion skin / Club; S C across fields. RIC II 699; Woytek 603b; BMCRE 1071-2. 2.79gr, 14mm, 6h

Near Very Fine.

From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

Rome mint; struck circa AD 124-125. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate bust to right, with slight drapery on far shoulder / COS above, III in exergue, she-wolf standing to left, suckling the Twins (Romulus and Remus). RIC II.3 709; BMCRE 449; Biaggi 598. 6.95gr, 18mm, 6h

Very Fine.

Ex Savoca Numismatik GmbH & Co. KG, Online Auction 128, 20 March 2022, lot 262.

Antioch mint; struck AD 119. [IMP] CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right, with aegis / P M TR POTES COS III, Aequitas-Moneta standing facing, head to left, holding scales with right hand and cornucopia with left. RIC II.3 2964; BMCRE p.378, 3 var. (bust type); RSC 1179b var. (same). 2.73gr, 19mm, 6h

Good Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 129-130. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to left / INDVLGENTIA AVG • P P, Indulgentia seated to left on throne, extending her right hand and holding sceptre in her left; COS III in exergue. RIC II.3 1023; Cohen -; BMC -. 1.97gr, 18mm, 6h

Near Very Fine. Surface blister on obverse. Very rare type.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 120-121. IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate bust to right with slight drapery on far shoulder / P M TR P [C]OS III, Fortuna standing facing, head to left, holding rudder with right hand and cornucopia with left, leaning against column. RIC II.3 394; BMCRE 170-173; RSC 1155a. 2.69gr, 18mm, 6h

Good Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 126-127. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head to right, traces of drapery on far shoulder / COS III, Salus standing to right, holding snake and feeding it from patera; S C across fields. RIC II.3 881; BMCRE 1341. 10.88gr, 28mm, 6h

Good Very Fine. Dark glossy patina.

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