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'.

London mint; struck AD 318. CONSTANTINVS IVN N C, laureate and draped bust to right / SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI, Sol standing facing, head to left, chlamys across shoulder, his right hand raised, holding globe with left; crescent in left field, PLN in exergue. RIC VII 147 var. (bust); C&T 8.11.043 var. (same). 3.43gr, 20mm, 6h

Near Extremely Fine. Apparently unpublished bust type variant.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 4th officina. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM around wreath containing VOT • V in two lines; ΔSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 163. 3.04gr, 20mm, 11h

Good Extremely Fine. Black patina with brown highlights. Flan crack at 11h, but otherwise an exceptional example with sharply struck details.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Lugdunum mint; struck AD 323-324. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to left / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, wreath encircling VOT •X•; PLGC in exergue. RIC VII 221. 2.69gr, 18mm, 1h

Good Very Fine.

Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

Siscia mint; struck AD 320-321. 5th officina. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, laureate head to right / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM around wreath containing VOT • V in two lines; ЄSIS(star) in exergue. RIC VII 163. 3.39gr, 19mm, 12h

Extremely Fine. Some silvering remaining.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Treveri mint; struck AD 322. 2nd officina. CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, laureate and mantled bust to left, holding Victory on globe in right hand and mappa in left / BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS, altar inscribed VO-TIS XX, surmounted by globe, three stars above; STR• in exergue. RIC VII 353. 2.88gr, 18mm, 6h

Near Mint State.

From a London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Lugdunum mint; struck AD 348-350. 1st officina. D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A behind / FEL TEMP REPARATIO, emperor standing facing, head to left, on prow of galley sailed to left by Victory seated to left at stern, holding Victory on globe with right hand and labarum with Christogram with left, A in left field; (star)PLG in exergue. RIC VIII 105; Bastien 205. 4.53gr, 24mm, 12h

Good Very Fine.

Ex Compton Dundon Hoard, found in Somerset, 2017.

The Compton Dundon Hoard consisted of 564 Roman Nummi, a large proportion of which were issues of the usurper Magnentius and Decentius, issued AD 350-353.

Antioch mint; struck AD 348-350. 3rd officina. D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FEL TEMP REPARATIO, soldier to left, spearing fallen horseman, shield to lower right; Г to left, ANΔ in exergue. RIC VIII 132. 5.17gr, 23mm, 5h

Good Extremely Fine.

Purchased at Coinex, 10 October 2003, collector's ticket included; Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Lugdunum mint; struck AD 330-331. 1st officina. FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C, laureate and cuirassed bust to right / GLORIA EXERCITVS, two soldiers standing facing, each holding reversed spear and resting hand on shield, two standards between; PLG in exergue. RIC VII 240. 2.46gr, 18mm, 12h

Extremely Fine. Nice dark green patina.

Ex Killingholme Hoard, North Lincolnshire, found in 1993; Ex Spink & Son, 26 August 2004. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman, collector's ticket included.

Contemporary imitation of an issue from Lugdunum mint. D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / FELICITAS REIPVBLICE, emperor in military dress standing to left, holding Victory on globe and standard with Chi-Rho banner; RPLO in exergue. For prototype: RIC VIII 112; Bastien 154; Lyon 139. 3.90gr, 23mm, 5h

Good Very Fine.

Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

Treveri mint; struck AD 353. D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / SALVS DD NN AVG ET CAES, large Chi-Rho; A-ω across fields; TRP in exergue. RIC 318. 4.87gr, 26mm, 7h

Near Very Fine.

Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector.

Treveri mint. 1st officina. D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A behind / GLORIA ROMANORVM, emperor on horseback to right, holding shield and spearing enemy on ground before him, broken spear and shield beneath horse; TRP(crescent) in exergue. RIC VIII 271. 4.34gr, 23mm, 6h

Very Fine - Good Very Fine.

Ex Compton Dundon Hoard, found in Somerset, 2017.

The Compton Dundon Hoard consisted of 564 Roman Nummi, a large proportion of which were issues of the usurper Magnentius and Decentius, issued AD 350-353.

Lugdunum mint. 1st officina. D N MAGNENTIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right; A behind / VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE, two Victories standing facing one another, together holding shield inscribed VOT V MVLT X in four lines; SV below, RPLG• in exergue. RIC VIII 128. 5.67gr, 20mm, 6h

Near Extremely Fine.

Purchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, September 2010; From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.