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'.

Ticinum mint; struck AD 278. 4th emission; 1st officina. VIRTVS PROBI AVG, radiate bust to left, seen from behind, holding square shield and spear / VIRTVS AVG, Mars advancing to right, holding transverse spear with left hand and trophy on right shoulder; PXXT in exergue. RIC V.2 - (cf. 430 var.); probuscoins.fr 2276. 3.57gr, 23mm, 6h

Near Extremely Fine. Very rare bust type.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Ticinum mint; struck AD 281. 4th officina. IMP C PROBVS AVG, radiate and mantled bust to left, holding eagle-tipped sceptre / PROVIDENT AVG, Providentia standing to left, holding globe and sceptre; Q in left field, SXXI in exergue. RIC V.2 490; probuscoins.fr 303. 4.19gr, 25mm, 6h

Near Extremely Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Ticinum mint; struck AD 280. 4th officina. IMP C PROBVS AVG, radiate bust to left, wearing imperial mantle and holding eagle-tipped sceptre / MARTI PACIF, Mars walking to left, holding olive branch and spear and shield; I in left field, QXXI in exergue. RIC V.2 508. 4.04gr, 24mm, 6h

Extremely Fine. Much original silvering remaining.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Cyzicus mint; struck AD 280. 2nd officina. IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and mantled bust to left, holding eagle-tipped sceptre / SOLI INVICTO, Sol standing facing in spread quadriga, head to left, holding whip and reins, and raising hand; C M below, XXIS in exergue. RIC V.2 911; probuscoins.fr 4198. 4.68gr, 23mm, 12h

Near Extremely Fine. Silvering almost fully intact.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Serdica mint; struck AD 280-281. 3rd officina. IMP C M AVR PROBVS P AVG, radiate, helmeted and cuirassed bust to left, holding spear and shield / VIRTVS PROBI AVG, Probus on horseback to left, raising his right hand and holding sceptre with left, bound captive before to left; KA•Γ• in exergue. RIC V.2 888; probuscoins.fr 3295. 3.92gr, 23mm, 7h

Near Extremely Fine. Silvering nearly fully intact.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman; Acquired from Monk of Croydon, Holiday Inn Coin Fair, 7 November 2009, old collector's ticket included.

Cyzicus mint; struck AD 281. 1st officina. IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate and mantled bust to left, holding eagle-tipped sceptre / SOLI INVICTO, Sol standing facing in spread quadriga, head to left, holding whip and reins with left hand, and raising his right hand; C M below, XXIP in exergue. RIC V.2 911; probuscoins.fr 79. 4.04gr, 23mm, 6h

Near Extremely Fine. Silvering with light golden toning.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman; Acquired from J. Philpotts, Holiday Inn Coin Fair, 6 September 2014, old collector's ticket included.

Cyzicus mint; struck AD 280. IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate, helmeted and cuirassed bust to left, holding spear on right shoulder and shield decorated with horseman motif / VIRTVS PROBI AVG, emperor riding to left, raising hand and holding sceptre, captive seated to left before; CXXIM in exergue. RIC V.2 913 var. (mintmark); probuscoins.fr 269. 3.46gr, 23mm, 11h

Very Fine.

Acquired at an UK art market, 28 April 2008. Property of an Essex, UK, collector; Collector's tickets included.

Ticinum mint; struck AD 280. 6th officina. IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG CONS III, radiate bust to left in imperial mantle, holding sceptre surmounted by eagle / SECVRIT PERP, Securitas standing facing, head to left, legs crossed, placing her right hand on head and leaning her left elbow on column; I in right field, VIXXI in exergue. RIC V.2 528 var. (I in left field); probuscoins.fr 1966. 4.59gr, 23mm, 5h

Extremely Fine. Very rare variant.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Siscia mint; struck AD 283. 1st officina. IMP C M AVR CARVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / RESTITVT ORBIS, female standing to right, presenting wreath to emperor standing facing, head to left, holding globe with right hand and sceptre with left; star in lower centre; XXIP in exergue. RIC V.2 - (cf. 106, placement of officina); La Venera 4038; Wildwinds (example by Lee Johnson, February 2001). 3.94gr, 22mm, 2h

Very Fine. Exceedingly rare; none on CoinArchives and possibly the third known example.

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

Rome mint; struck AD 285. 3rd officina. IMP CARINVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust to right / AETERNIT AVG, Aeternitas standing to left, holding Phoenix on globe and raising fold of skirt; KA(crescent)Γ in exergue. RIC V 244; Cohen 10; Pink VI/2, p. 39. 2.81gr, 21mm, 11h

Good Very Fine. Some original silvering remaining.

Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

Treveri mint; struck AD 302-303. 2nd officina. IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI, Genius standing facing, head to left, modius on head, holding patera with right hand and cornucopia with left; S-F across fields, IITR in exergue. RIC VI 515a. 11.20gr, 28mm, 12h

Near Extremely Fine. Much silvering remaining.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Lugdunum mint; struck AD 285-286. 3rd officina. IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind / PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing facing, head to left, holding grain ears over modius with her right hand and cornucopia with her left; C in right field. RIC V.2 77; Cohen 410; Bastien 13. 4.13gr, 22mm, 12h

Extremely Fine. Silvering almost fully intact.

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