Auction Highlights
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Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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. -
Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
Sold for (Inc. bp): £18,200
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. -
Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £17,550
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. -
Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39,000
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. -
Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
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. -
Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £28,600
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 Marble Memento Mori Skull
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
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. -
'The Kelton' Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,700
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'.
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Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 264-265. 1st officina. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing facing, head to left, raising both hands; P above lit altar to left. RIC V.1 507 (sole reign); RSC 786. 4.26gr, 22mm, 10h
Extremely Fine. Nearly fully silvered.
From a London collection, 1990s. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Antioch mint; struck AD 266. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / IVBENTVS AVG, emperor standing to left, holding Victory and spear; VIIC • in exergue. RIC V.1 615 (Asia, sole reign) var. (bust type; mintmark). 3.00gr, 22mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine. Fully intact silvering.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus AR Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 261. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to left / VICTORIA AVG [VII?], Victory walking to left, holding wreath and palm. Cf. RIC V.1 526. 2.59gr, 21mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Toned. Very rare.
Property of a North London, UK, collector. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Antioch mint; struck AD 266-267. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / LVNA LVCIF, Luna Lucifera walking to right, holding torch; PXV in exergue. RIC V.1 609 (Asia, sole reign); MIR 1665k; RSC 599. 4.41gr, 21mm, 12h
Extremely Fine. Fully intact silvering.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Antioch mint; struck AD 260. IMP GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / [VIC]TORIA GERMAN, Victory, on the left, standing to right, holding wreath in right hand and palm frond in left, facing Gallienus, on the right, standing to left, holding globe in right hand and spear in left; in field above, star. RIC V.1 452 (joint reign; uncertain Asian mint); Cohen 1173; MIR 1607b. 3.82gr, 20mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Much silvering remaining.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Antioch mint; struck AD 267. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / AETERNITAS AVG, Saturn standing to right, holding harpa; PXV in exergue. RIC V.1 606 (Asia, sole reign) var. (sceptre not harpa); MIR 1662i. 3.66 gr, 21mm, 6h
Good Very Fine. Fully intact silvering.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Antioch mint; struck AD 266. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / FIDES AVG, Mercury standing to left, holding purse and caduceus; PXV in exergue. RIC V.1 607 (Asia, sole reign); MIR 1667k; RSC 219. 4.03gr, 22mm, 11h
Good Very Fine. Fully intact silvering.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 267-268. 5th officina. IMP GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / DIANAE CONS AVG, deer standing to right, head reverted; Є in exergue. RIC V.2 176 (sole reign); MIR 728z; RSC 153. 3.19gr, 21mm, 2h
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 260-261. "Legionary series" issue. 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. 4.27gr, 22mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, collector. -
Gallienus AR Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Antioch mint; struck AD 253-254. 1st emission. IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / PACATORI ORBIS, Jupiter seated to left, holding patera with right hand and sceptre with left; at his feet, eagle standing to left, head to right. RIC V.1 294 (Viminacium) var. (bust type); MIR 36, 1562d; RSC 714 (Viminacium) var. (same). 3.05gr, 24mm, 11h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Rome mint; struck AD 265-268. 6th officina. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / FORTVNA REDVX, Fortuna standing facing, head to left, holding rudder with right hand and cornucopia with left; ς in right field. RIC V.1, 193 var. (placement of officina); MIR 586a. 3.03gr, 22mm, 1h
Extremely Fine. Silvering almost fully intact.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Rome mint; struck AD 267-268. 4th officina. IMP GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / APOLLINI CONS AVG, griffin walking to right; Δ in exergue. RIC V.1 165 (sole reign); MIR 718z; RSC 77. 3.45gr, 22mm, 4h
Good Very Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.