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  • Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
    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.





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  • Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
    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.





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  • Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
    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.





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  • Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
    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.





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  • Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
    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.





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  • Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
    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.





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  • Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull
    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.





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  • The Kelton Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
    '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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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

    Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 4th officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, laurel wreath enclosing VOT • X X; ΔSIS(star) below. RIC VII 159. 3.00gr, 19mm, 7h

    Extremely Fine. Some silvering remaining.

    From a private collection, UK.

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £78

    Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 2nd officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, laurel wreath enclosing VOT • X X; BSIS(star) below. RIC VII 159. 3.49gr, 19mm, 1h

    Extremely Fine. Nice dark green patina; some original silvering remaining.

    From a private collection, UK.

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £20

    London mint; struck AD 313-314. 1st officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate, helmeted and cuirassed bust to left, holding spear and shield / SOLI INVICTO COMITI, Sol standing to left, raising right hand and holding globe; S F across fields, PLN in exergue. RIC VII 18; C&T 8.02.026. 2.88gr, 20mm, 6h

    Very Fine.

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

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Unpublished Nummus of Constantine I the 'Great'
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

    Thessalonica mint; struck AD 318-319. 4th officina. IMP CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / Laurel wreath enclosing VOT XX MVLT •XXX• TS•Δ• in four lines. RIC VII - (cf. 31 for different obverse legend). 3.94gr, 19mm, 12h

    Near Extremely Fine. Much silvering remaining. Extremely Rare; not in RIC.

    From a private collection, UK.

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £35

    Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 4th officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, laurel wreath enclosing VOT • X X; ΔSIS(star) below. RIC VII 159. 2.68gr, 18mm, 7h

    Extremely Fine. Some silvering remaining.

    From a private collection, UK.

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £13

    Treveri mint; struck AD 313-315. 1st officina. CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / SOLI INVICTO COMITI, Sol standing to left, raising hand and holding globe; T F across fields, PTR in exergue. RIC VII 42. 3.32gr, 24mm, 6h

    Very Fine. Much original silvering remaining.

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

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  • Constantine I the Great BI Nummus.
    Constantine I 'the Great' BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £169

    Lugdunum mint; struck AD 313-314. 1st officina. IMP CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI, Sol standing to left, chlamys across left shoulder, holding globe with left and raising his right hand; S-F across fields, PLG in exergue. RIC VII 3. 4.75gr, 22mm, 7h

    Extremely Fine. Beautiful glossy patina.

    From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Very Rare Bust Type
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £62

    Treveri mint; struck AD 309. 1st officina. IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / MARTI PATRI CONSERVATORI, Mars standing to right, holding spear and resting hand on shield; T F across fields, PTR in exergue. RIC VI 829 var. (bust not cuirassed). 5.89gr, 26mm, 6h

    Good Very Fine. Some original silvering remaining. Very rare bust type.

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

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

    Treveri mint; struck AD 310-313. CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / MARTI CONSERVATORI, helmeted and cuirassed bust of Mars to right. RIC VI 884. 1.50gr, 21mm, 5h

    Very Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Constantine I the Great BI Nummus.
    Constantine I 'the Great' BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £39

    Ticinum mint; struck AD 319-320. 3rd officina. CONST-ANTINVS AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust to right, seen from front / VIRTVS EXERCIT, standard inscribed VOT XX in two lines, captives seated to left and to right on ground; TT in exergue. RIC VII 114. 2.95gr, 20mm, 6h

    Extremely Fine. Much silvering remaining.

    From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

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  • Constantine I BI Nummus.
    Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

    Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 5th officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, laurel wreath enclosing VOT • X X; ЄSIS(star) below. RIC VII 159. 3.62gr, 20mm, 1h

    Extremely Fine. Much silvering remaining.

    From a private collection, UK.

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  • Constantine I the Great BI Nummus.
    Constantine I 'the Great' BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £52

    Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 5th officina. CONSTA-NTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG around wreath containing VOT • XX in two lines; ЄSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 159. 3.29gr, 18mm, 7h

    Extremely Fine; some silvering remaining.

    From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

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