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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Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Ticinum mint; struck AD 320. 2nd officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG, wreath enclosing VOT ✷ XX in two lines; S T below. RIC VII 130. 3.14gr, 19mm, 6h
Extremely Fine. Almost intact silvering. Very Rare; no other example on CoinArchives.
From a private collection, UK. -
Licinius I BI Nummus. AD 308-324.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Ticinum mint; struck AD 319-320. 1st officina. IMP LICINIVS AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS EXERCIT, vexillum inscribed VOT XX between two seated captives, one with his hands bound behind his back and the other in attitude of mourning and looking up at vexillum; P T in exergue. RIC VII 116. 3.32gr, 20mm, 1h
Extremely Fine. Almost intact silvering.
From a private collection, UK. -
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Treveri mint; struck AD 322. 2nd officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate bust to right, wearing trabea and holding eagle-tipped sceptre / BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, banded globe set on altar inscribed VOTIS XX in three lines; three stars above, STR• in exergue. RIC VII 342. 2.89gr, 19mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine. Attractive olive green patina.
From the Killingholme Hoard, North Lincolnshire, found in 1993; Ex Spink & Son, 1 March 2004. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, collector's ticket included. -
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £35
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. 3.77gr, 19mm, 12h
Extremely Fine.
From a private collection, UK. -
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Treveri mint; struck AD 317. 1st officina. CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SOLI INVICTO COMITI, radiate Sol standing facing, head to left with chlamys around shoulders, with right hand raised and holding globe in left; T-F across fields, •ATR in exergue. RIC VII 134. 3.52gr, 19mm, 5h
Extremely Fine. Nice glossy olive green patina. Rare.
From the Killingholme Hoard, North Lincolnshire, found in 1993; Ex Spink & Son, 3 March 2004; Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, collector's ticket included. -
Constantine I BI Nummus. AD 307/310-337.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £196
Treveri mint; struck AD 322. 1st officina. CONSTANTINVS AVG, helmeted and cuirassed bust to right / BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, globe set on altar inscribed VOTIS XX in three lines; three stars above, PTR• in exergue. RIC VII 341. 3.23gr, 18mm, 7h
Extremely Fine. Beautiful glossy, olive green patina.
From the Killingholme Hoard, North Lincolnshire, found in 1993; Ex Spink & Son, 17 August 2004; Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, collector's ticket included. -
Commemorative Series AE Follis. AD 330-354.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Lugdunum mint; struck under Constantine I, AD 332. 1st officina. VRBS ROMA, bust of Roma to left, wearing crested helmet and imperial mantle / She-wolf standing to left, suckling Romulus and Remus; two stars above; (pellet-in-crescent)PLG in exergue. RIC VII 257. 2.18gr, 16mm, 12h
Good Very Fine.
Acquired at an UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector; Collector's ticket included. -
Commemorative Series AE Follis. AD 330-354.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Treveri mint; struck under Constantine I, AD 330-331. 1st officina. CONSTANTINOPOLIS, laureate, helmeted and mantled bust of Constantinopolis to left, sceptre over shoulder / Victory standing to left on prow, holding transverse sceptre and resting hand on shield; TRP • in exergue. RIC VII 530. 2.11gr, 17mm, 5h
Near Extremely Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
City Commemorative AE 14mm. AD 330-354.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Constantinople mint; struck under Constantine I, AD 330. 2nd officina. POP ROMANVS, laureate and draped bust of Genius to left, cornucopia at shoulder / Milvian Bridge over the River Tiber, CONS B in two lines above. RIC VIII 21; LRBC 1066. 1.13gr, 14mm, 5h
Near Very Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
Fausta, Augusta BI Nummus. AD 324-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Treveri mint; struck AD 325-326. 1st officina. FLAV MAX FAVSTA AVG, mantled bust to right / SPES REIPVBLICAE, Spes standing facing, head to left, holding two infants in her arms; PTR(pellet in crescent) in exergue. RIC VII 484. 3.05gr, 19mm, 12h
Extremely Fine. Lovely olive-green patina.
From the Killingholme Hoard, North Lincolnshire, found in 1993; Ex Spink & Son, 3 March 2004. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, collector's ticket included. -
Helena, Augusta BI Nummus. AD 324-328/30.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Treveri mint; struck AD AD 327-328. 2nd officina. FL HELENA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust to right / SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE, Securitas standing facing, head to left, holding branch with right hand; STRE in exergue. RIC VII 508; LRBC 41. 3.00gr, 19mm, 6h
Extremely Fine. Attractive olive-green patina.
From the Killingholme Hoard, North Lincolnshire, found in 1993; Ex Spink & Son, 5 March 2004; Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, collector's ticket included. -
Crispus, as Caesar BI Nummus. AD 316-326.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Aquileia mint; struck AD 321. 2nd officina. CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM around wreath with jewel at apex containing VOT • V in two lines; • AQS [•] in exergue. RIC VII 89. 3.12gr, 18mm, 12h
Extremely Fine. Near full silvering. Very rare bust variant.
From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.