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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Claudius II Gothicus BI Antoninianus. AD 268-270.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Rome mint; struck AD 270. 4th officina. IMP CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / ANNONA AVG, Annona standing facing, head to to left, her right foot on prow, holding corn-ears with right hand and cornucopia with left; Δ in right field. RIC V.1 19; MER-RIC 335. 3.25gr, 20mm, 1h
Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Divus Claudius II Gothicus BI Antoninianus. Died AD 270.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint; struck AD 270-271. DIVO CLAVDIO, radiate head to right / CONSECRATIO, eagle standing to left, head to right. RIC V.1 266; MER-RIC 1278 (temporary). 3.51gr, 21mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Marius, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Colonia Agrippinensis mint; struck AD 269. IMP C M AVR MARIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed(?) bust to right / VICTORIA AVG, Victory advancing to left, holding wreath with right hand and palm with left. RIC V.2 17; cf. RIC V.4 487-8. 2.52gr, 21mm, 1h
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman; From Den of Antiquity Int Ltd, dealer's ticket included. -
Marius, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Colonia Agrippinensis mint. IMP C M AVR MARIVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTV-S AVG, soldier standing facing, head to left, leaning on shield with right hand and holding spear with left. RIC V.2 19; Cunetio 2512; Elmer 640 ('Treveri'). 2.55gr, 20mm, 1h
Extremely Fine. Black patina with brown highlights. Flan crack at 3h.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.
An exceptional issue of a very rare emperor. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Treveri mint; struck AD 269-270. 5th officina. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / PAX AVG, Pax standing facing, head to left, holding olive branch with right hand and sceptre in left; V in left field, star in right field. RIC V.2 118 (Colonia Agrippinensis). 3.37gr, 22mm, 7h
Near Extremely Fine.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Treveri mint; struck AD 270-271. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / INVICTVS, Sol advancing to left, raising hand and holding whip; star in left field. RIC V.2 114 (Colonia Agrippinensis); RIC V.4 521. 2.09gr, 19mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired at Charing Cross Collectors Market, London, 6 September 2003; Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Colonia Agrippinensis; struck AD 269-270. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS AVG, Salus standing to right, feeding serpent in her arms. RIC V.2 67 (Southern Mint) and 122 (Colonia Agrippinensis). 3.23gr, 20mm, 1h
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Uncertain mint. Imitative issue. [...] VICTOΡINVS P Ε ΔCF(sic), radiate and cuirassed bust to right / LAETITI AVG[...], Laetitia standing to left, holding wreath and anchor. For prototype, cf. RIC V.4 585. 2.60gr, 19mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Colonia Agrippinensis mint; struck AD 271. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / SALVS AVG, Salus standing to right, feeding serpent in her arms. RIC V.2 67 (Southern Mint) and 122 (Colonia Agrippinensis). 3.43gr, 23mm, 8h
Near Extremely Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Colonia Agrippinensis mint; struck AD 269-270. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / SALVS AVG, Salus standing facing, head to right, feeding serpent in arms. RIC V.2 122. 2.64gr, 22mm, 6h
Good Very Fine. Much original silvering remaining.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Treveri mint; struck AD 269-271. 5th officina. IMP C VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / PAX AVG, Pax standing facing, head to left, holding olive branch with right hand and transverse sceptre with left; V in left field, star in right field. RIC V.2 118 (Colonia Agrippinensis); RIC V.4 526; Elmer 682; AGK 14b. 3.43gr, 20mm, 12
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Victorinus, Romano-Gallic Emperor BI Antoninianus. AD 269-271.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Treveri (?) mint; struck mid AD 269. IMP C PIAV VICTORINVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / INVICTVS, Sol advancing to left, with right hand raised and holding whip in left; star to left. Cf. RIC V.2 113; cf. RIC V.4 507. 2.21gr, 20mm, 2h
Extremely Fine. Unsual issue of Victorinus with the portrait of Postumus, which seems to have been struck at the beginning of his reign.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.