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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Decentius, as Caesar BI Centenionalis. AD 350/1-353.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Ambianum mint; struck AD 351-352. D N DECENTIVS NOB CAES, bare-headed and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIAE DD NN AVG ET CAE, two Victories holding between them shield, inscribed VOT V MVLT X in four lines, staurogram above; AMB(crescent) in exergue. RIC VIII 18. 4.43gr, 22mm, 12h
Near Extremely 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. -
Constantius Gallus, as Caesar BI Brockage Centenionalis. AD 351-354.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Uncertain mint. D N CONSTAN[TIVS IVN NOB C], bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust to right; Δ behind / Incuse of obverse. Cf. RIC VIII 39 (Sirmium). 5.56gr, 21mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Julian II AR Siliqua. AD 360-363.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Lyon mint; struck AD 360-363. FL CL IVLIANVS PP AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VOTIS V MVLTIS X, in four lines within wreath, PLVG in exergue. RIC 227. 1.98gr, 16mm, 1h
Very Fine.
Property of an Essex collector. -
Julian II AR Siliqua. AD 360-363.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Arelate mint; struck AD 362-363. 2nd officina. D N FL CL IVLIANVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VOT X MVLT XX in four lines within wreath; SCONST in exergue. RIC VIII 312; RSC 148†c. 1.75gr, 17mm, 10h
Very Fine. Flan crack at 8h.
From an old UK collection, 1980s; Property of an London antiquarian. -
Julian II AR Reduced Siliqua. AD 360-363.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Lugdunum mint. FL CL IVLIANVS P P AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VOTIS V MVLTIS X in four lines within wreath; PLVG in exergue. RIC VIII 227; RSC 163†b. 1.22gr, 14mm, 12h
Very Fine. Clipped.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Julian II AR Siliqua. AD 360-363.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Treveri mint; struck AD 360-363. D N CL IVLIANVS AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VOTIS V MVLTIS X in four lines within wreath with jewel at apex; TR (branch) in exergue. RIC 365; RSC 157†b. 1.71gr, 17mm, 7h
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Valens AR Siliqua. AD 364-378.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Treveri(?) mint. D N VALENS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [VRBS] ROMA, Roma enthroned to left, holding Victory on globe in her right hand and inverted spear in her left; uncertain mintmark in exergue. Cf. RIC 27e. 1.20gr, 13mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Clipped.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Gratian BI 23mm. AD 367-383.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Rome mint; struck AD 378-383. 3rd officina. D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / REPARATIO REIPVB, emperor standing facing, head to left, right hand raised, holding Victory on globe with left; kneeling woman to right on left, SMRT in exergue. RIC IX 43a. 7.54gr, 23mm, 5h
Very Fine.
Acquired at an UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, collector; Collector's ticket included. -
Magnus Maximus AR Siliqua. AD 383-388.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Treveri mint. D N MAG MAXIMVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS ROMANORVM, Roma enthroned facing, head to left, holding globe and spear, TRPS in exergue. RIC 84b; RSC 20a. 1.50gr, 16mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Eugenius AR Siliqua. AD 392-394.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Mediolanum mint. [D N EVGENI]VS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [VIRTVS ROMANORVM], Roma seated to left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and reversed spear; MDPS in exergue. RIC 32c. 1.14gr, 14mm, 6h
Near Very Fine. Clipped.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Honorius AR Siliqua. AD 393-423.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mediolanum mint. D N HONORIVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VIRTVS ROMANORVM, Roma seated to left on cuirass holding Victory and inverted spear, MDPS in exergue. RIC X 1228; RSC 59†b. 0.95gr, 16mm, 12h
Near Very Fine.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector. -
Honorius AR Siliqua. AD 393-423.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Mediolanum(?) mint. D N HON[ORIVS P F AVG], pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust to right / [VIRTVS ROM]AN[ORVM], Roma seated to left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and sceptre; [MDPS?] in exergue. Cf. RIC 32c; cf. RSC 59b. 1.03gr, 14mm, 12h
Good Very Fine. Clipped.
Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector.