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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Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Treveri mint; struck AD 262-263. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS AVG, Mars standing facing, head to right, holding spear in right hand and placing his left on shield set on ground. RIC V.4 207; Cunetio 2400; Elmer 190. 3.50gr, 23mm, 2h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Postumus(?) BI Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Local imitation. Blundered legend, radiate, draped and cuirassed(?) bust to right / MONETA AVG, Moneta standing facing, head to left, holding scales with right hand and cornucopiae with left. For prototype, cf. RIC V.2 75 (Lugdunum) and 315 (Cologne). 2.43gr, 17mm, 1h
Good Very Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Treveri mint; struck AD 268. 1st officina. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / ORIENS AVG, Sol advancing to left, raising his right hand and holding whip with left; P in left field. RIC V.2, 316 note (Colonia Agrippinensis); RSC 213d. 2.84gr, 21mm, 11h
Extremely Fine. Some silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Treveri mint; struck AD 269. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / IMP X COS V, Victory standing to right, holding wreath with right and palm branch with left hand. RIC V.2 289 (Colonia Agrippinensis); RSC 144a. 2.56gr, 20mm, 1h
Extremely Fine. Some silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £320
Colonia Agrippinensis mint; struck AD 268. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter advancing to left, head to right, holding thunderbolt and sceptre; C A across fields. RIC V.2 311; RIC V.4 427. 3.17gr, 20mm, 6h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor AR Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Treveri mint; struck AD 261. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / HERC DEVSONIENSI, Hercules standing to right, leaning on club, holding bow and lion's skin. RIC V.2 64 (Lugdunum). 4.08gr, 21mm, 6h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Postumus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 260-269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Treveri mint; struck AD 261. IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FIDES MILITV, Fides standing to left, holding standards in each hand. RIC V.2 59 var. (MILITVM); RIC V.4 -; RSC 67a var. (same). 3.17gr, 23mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine. Apparently unpublished variant or reverse legend.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Aureolus, Romano-Gallic Usurper BI Antoninianus. AD 267-268.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Mediolanum mint. In the name of Postumus. Struck AD 268. IMP POSTVMVS [AVG], radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS EQVIT, Mars walking to right, holding spear with right and shield with left hand; T below. RIC V.2 388; C. 441; Mairat 506. 2.75gr, 20mm, 6h
Very Fine - Good Very Fine. Some silvering remaining.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector; Collector's ticket included. -
Saloninus, as Caesar BI Antoninianus. AD 258-260.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £21
Rome mint; struck AD 257-258. 1st officina. LIC COR SAL VALERIANVS N CAES, radiate and draped bust to right / PRINC IVVENT, prince standing facing, head to left, holding globe with right hand and sceptre with left; captive to left by feet, P in right field. RIC V.1 28 var. (ensign instead of globe, joint reign); MIR 275i; RSC 63. 2.81gr, 21mm, 11h
Very Fine. Most silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Quietus BI Antoninianus. AD 260-261.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Samosata mint. IMP C FVL QVIETVS P F AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust to right / APOLINI CONSERVA, Apollo standing to left, holding branch and lyre. RIC V.1 3; MIR 1728f; RSC 3. 3.70gr, 20mm, 6h
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, collector. -
Claudius II Gothicus BI Antoninianus. AD 268-270.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 270. 11th officina. IMP CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate head to right / SECVRIT AVG, Securitas standing facing, head to left, legs crossed, holding sceptre with right hand and leaning on column with left elbow; XI in right field. RIC V.1, - (cf. 100; radiate and cuirassed bust); MER-RIC 536 (temporary). 3.45gr, 20mm, 11h
Extremely Fine. Full silvering. Extremely Rare Variant; no other examples on CoinArchives.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Claudius II Gothicus BI Antoninianus. AD 268-270.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mediolanum mint; struck AD 268-269. 2nd officina. IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / VICTORIA A•VG, Victory advancing to right, holding wreath with right hand and palm with left; S in exergue. RIC V.1 171; MER-RIC 33, note b (specimen no. 51446 in Vienna). 4.47gr, 23mm, 11h
Extremely Fine. Some silvering remaining. Extremely rare variant of reverse legend.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.