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): £59
Rome mint; struck AD 267-268. 7th officina. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / APOLLINI CONS AVG, Centaur walking to right and drawing bow; Z in exergue. RIC V.1 163 (sole reign); MIR 735b; RSC 72. 2.28gr, 20mm, 7h
Extremely Fine. Die break across obverse field.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Contemporary struck forgery. Uncertain mint. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / MONETA AVG, Moneta standing to left, holding scales and cornucopia. Cf. MIR 36, Tafel 136, Zf 78; cf. Cunetio 2792. 3.67gr, 20mm, 6h
Good Very Fine. Some original silvering remaining. An interesting issue with reverse type from Postumus issues (cf. AGK 45).
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Gallienus BI Antoninianus. AD 253-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Rome mint; struck AD 267-268. 2nd officina. GALLIENVS AVG, radiate head to right / LIBERO P CONS AVG, panther walking to left; B in exergue. RIC V.1 230 (sole reign); MIR 713b; RSC 586. 3.15gr, 21mm, 11h
Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Salonina, Augusta BI Antoninianus. AD 254-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 256-257. SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / PIETAS AVG, Pietas standing facing, head to left, raising her right hand and holding box of perfume with left. RIC V.1 33 (joint reign); Cohen 81. 2.71gr, 22mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine. Much original silvering remaining. Very rare variant.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Severina, Augusta BI Antoninianus. AD 270-275.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Antioch mint; struck early AD 275. 5th officina. SEVERINA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / CONCORDIAE MILITVM, Concordia standing facing, head to left, holding two standards; V in left field, XXI in exergue. RIC V.1 20; MER-RIC 3196 (temporary). 3.87gr, 22mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Earthen red patina.
From a Swiss private collection, before 2005. -
Salonina, Augusta BI Antoninianus. AD 254-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 260-262. 6th officina. SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / PVDICITIA, Pudicitia seated to left, raising veil with right hand and holding transverse sceptre with left; VI in exergue. RIC V.1 25; MIR 376dd. 3.92gr, 21mm, 11h
Good Very Fine. Some silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Salonina, Augusta AR Antoninianus. AD 254-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Rome mint; struck AD 257-258. SALONINA AVG, draped and diademed bust to right, set on crescent / IVNO REGINA, Juno standing to left, holding spear and patera. RIC V.1 29 (Gallienus); MIR 227b; RSC 60. 3.20gr, 22mm, 5h
Extremely Fine. Toned.
Acquired from GB Collection, 26 May 2016, no.05254. -
Salonina, Augusta AR Antoninianus. AD 254-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Colonia Agrippinensis mint; struck AD 257-258. SALONINA AVG, diademed and draped bust to right, set on crescent / FELICITAS PVBLICA, Felicitas seated to left, holding caduceus with right hand and cornucopia with left. RIC V.1 6 (joint reign); MIR 903c; RSC 50. 3.07gr, 22mm, 7h
Very Fine. Lightly toned.
From a Swiss private collection, before 2005. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Treveri mint; struck AD 266-267. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SAECVLI FELICITAS, Emperor standing facing, head to right, holding spear with right hand and globe in left. RIC V.2 83 (Lugdunum) and 325 (Colonia Agrippinensis); RSC 331a. 3.63gr, 20mm, 1h
Near Extremely Fine.
From a London collection, 1990s. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £35
Treveri mint; struck AD 266-267. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS AVG, Aesculapius standing facing, head to left, leaning on snake-entwined staff, globe at feet to right. RIC V.2 86 (Lugdunum) and 326 (Colonia Agrippinensis); RSC 336d. 3.70gr, 20mm, 6h
Extremely Fine. Flan crack at 6h.
From a London collection, 1990s. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Treveri mint; struck AD 267. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / VBERITAS AVG, Uberitas standing facing, head to left, holding cow's udder with right hand and cornucopia with left. RIC V 330; AGK 94; RSC 366a. 4.69gr, 20mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Treveri mint; struck AD 266-267. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS POS-TVMI AVG, Salus standing to right, feeding serpent in arms from patera. RIC V.2 328 (Colonia Agrippinensis); Elmer 414; RSC 350a. 3.37gr, 20mm, 1h
Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.