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'.

Rome mint; struck AD 238-239. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / FIDES MILITVM, Fides standing facing, head to left, holding vertical standard with right hand and transverse sceptre with left. RIC IV 1; RSC 86. 4.64gr, 23mm, 7h

Good Very Fine.

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

Rome mint. Struck AD 241-243. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / P M TR P III COS II P P, Apollo seated to left, holding branch with right hand and resting left elbow on lyre. RIC IV 114; RSC 238. 2.67gr, 19mm, 1h

Near Extremely Fine.

Ex Spink, dealer's ticket included; Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector.

Antioch mint. Struck AD 247-8. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / AEQVITAS AVG, Aequitas standing facing, head to left, holding scales with right hand and cornucopia in left. RIC IV 27b var. (Rome; reverse legend); RSC 9 var. (same). 4.79gr, 22mm, 7h

Near Extremely Fine.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Rome mint. Struck AD 244-246. MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / PVDICITIA AVG, Pudicitia seated to left, drawing veil from face with right hand and holding transverse sceptre with left. RIC IV 123c (Philip I); RSC 53. 3.71gr, 22mm, 6h

Very Fine - Good Very Fine. Flan crack.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Antioch mint; struck AD 249-250. IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / VERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing facing, head to left, holding bag with right hand and cornucopia with left. RIC IV 28b note (bust also draped); RSC -. 3.94gr, 21mm, 1h

Extremely Fine. Nicely toned.

From a Swiss private collection, before 2005.

Rome mint. IMP CAE C VIB VOLV[SIANO AVG], laureate, draped and cuirassed(?) bust to right, seen from rear / IVN[ONI MART]IALI, Juno, veiled, seated to left on throne, holding two corn ears in her right hand and globe in her left; S C below. RIC IV.3 - (for reverse cf.109 for Sestertius of Trebonianus Gallus); Cohen -. 12.49gr, 27mm, 12h

Near Very Fine. Green patina. Not in the standard references and apparently unique.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Rome mint; struck AD 253-254. IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / APOLINI PROPVG Apollo standing to right, drawing bow. RIC V 74; MIR 36, 44d; RSC 25. 3.44gr, 22mm, 11h

Good Very Fine.

From a London collection, 1990s.

Rome mint. DIVO CAES VALERIANO, radiate head to right / CONSECRATIO, lighted altar. RIC V 24; MIR 261g; RSC 12. 2.89gr, 21mm, 1h

Good Very Fine. Some original silvering remaining.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Mediolanum mint; struck AD 260-261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / LEG I ADI VI P VI F, capricorn to right. RIC V.1 315 (joint reign); MIR 982r; RSC 447. 2.08gr, 24mm, 7h

Near Very Fine.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 267-268. 12th officina. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / DIANAE CONS AVG, antelope walking to left; XII in exergue. RIC V 181; MIR 36, 750b; RSC 165. 3.62gr, 21mm, 5h

Good Very Fine. Some original silvering remaining.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Rome mint; struck AD 262-263. 2nd officina. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna standing facing, head to left, holding cornucopia with left hand and rudder set on globe with right; S in right field. RIC V.1, 193 var. (placement of officina); Göbl 586w. 3.39 gr, 21 mm, 5h

Extremely Fine. Very rare combination of bust type and officina.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Asian mint; struck AD 266-268. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / PIETAS AVG, emperor standing facing, head left, holding sceptre and sacrificing with patera over lighted altar; VIIC• in exergue. RIC V.1 618 var. (bust type; mintmark). 3.39gr, 21mm, 11h

Near Extremely Fine. Fully intact silvering.

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