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'.

IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANOVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / VICTORIA DOMINI ANTI COLON, Victory advancing to left, holding wreath and palm; S R (retrograde) across fields. RPC VII.2, 2739. 26.44gr, 34mm, 8h

Very Fine.

From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian.

AY • KAI Γ MЄC • KYIN • ΔЄKI[OC TPAIA]NOC, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear; Π Π (ΠΑΤΗΡ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ) across fields / TAPCOV MHTPO[ΠOΛЄΩC], Herakles standing facing, head to right, holding club in right hand and lion's skin in his left; Α Μ [Κ] Γ Β (ΠΡΩΤΗΣ ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗΣ ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΗΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙ or ΓΝΩΜΗ ΒΟΥΛΗΣ) in fields. RPC IX 1356; SNG BnF 1756; SNG Levante 1157; SNG Copenhagen 399. 20.26gr, 32mm, 6h

Near Very Fine. Die break on reverse.

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

Dated CY 254 (AD 218). AVT K M A AN-TꟽNЄINOC CЄ, laureate head to right / ΛЄ-VK, Sol, holding sceptre and globe, driving facing spread quadriga; ΔNC (date) below. SNG München -; SNG Copenhagen -; Lindgren & Kovacs 2188. 15.67gr, 27mm, 2h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / COL ΔAMAC METRO, nude Ambrosia standing facing, head to right, clasping vine tendrils, floral structure at feet from which vines emerge. RPC VIII unassigned ID 26786 (temporary). 16.74gr, 29mm, 12h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

For more interpretations of the female figure on reverse, see G. Bijowski, "The myth of Daphne on a coin minted at Damascus," AJN 15 (2003), pp. 53-9 and K. Butcher, "Ambrosia in Damascus?," NC 170 (2010), pp. 85-91.

P. Quinctilius Varus, legatus. Struck 6-4 BC. IMP CAESAR AVGVSTV, bare head to right / [...]CTLLLVS VVRVS, two aquilae between two standards. Cf. RPC I 4535. 7.56gr, 21mm, 12h

Very Fine.

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

Struck circa AD 239-241. IMP GORDIANVS AVG COS I, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / COL IVL AVG FEL BER, Dionysus standing facing, head to left, holding nebris over shoulder, rhyton and thyrsus; at feet, panther standing to left, head to right. RPC VII.2, 3551; BMC 245; SNG Copenhagen 125. 8.86gr, 23mm, 1h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Dated CY 531(?) (AD 219/220). ΑΥ Κ Μ Α ΑΝΤധΝΙΝΟϹ, radiate and cuirassed bust to right; cuirass decorated with Gorgoneion / ΟΡΘധϹΙЄധΝ ΑΛΦ(?) (date), Baal of Orthosia standing on two winged lions(?) with horns. RPC VI, 8243 (temporary). 10.40gr, 24mm, 1h

Near Very Fine. Very rare; only two other examples cited by RPC Online.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Dated SE 459 (AD 147/8). [ΑΥΡΗ]ΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙ [ϹЄΒ ЄΥϹЄΒ ΥΙΟϹ], laureate head to right / ΘΝΥ (date) ΤΡΙΠΟΛЄΙΤധΝ, draped busts of the Dioscuri jugate, to right; each wearing laureate pileus surmounted by star. RPC IV.3, 6807 (temporary); SNG Copenhagen 284. 10.27gr, 24mm, 12h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

IMP CAES MACRINVS AVG, laureate head to right / SEP TVRVS METRO COLON, prow of galley sailing to right; murex shell above. Rouvier 2340; BMC 384; SNG Copenhagen 361. 8.06gr, 21mm, 7h

Near Very Fine. Very rare.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ ΚΑΙ, laureate head to right / ΙΠΠΗ-ΝΩ, horse standing to left; [monogram of AT to left]. RPC II, 2105; Spijkerman 5; Sofaer 10. 4.54gr, 19mm, 12h

Near Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

AVT C M AVP ANTONINVS, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from rear / Tyche standing to left within tetrastyle temple, with arcuated lintel, holding sceptre with left hand and small bust with right, right foot on bull's head (or prow); A-V above wings, [ЄC]BOVC in exergue. RPC VI, 9345.13 (temporary) (this coin); Rosenberger 3 (Tyche holds phiale and her foot on river-god); Sofaer 4-5. 9.93gr, 22mm, 6h

Near Very Fine. Rare. This coin published at Roman Provincial Coinage Online (rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk).

Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman; Ex Classical Numismatic Group, E-auction 531, 25 January 2023, lot 659.

Dated year 214 (AD 210/1). [M AVP ANT]ΩNЄINOC [CЄB], laureate head to right, seen from rear / KAICAPIA ΠANIAC, Tyche standing facing, head to right, her left foot on rock, holding rudder and cornucopia; [C−ΙΔ] (date) across field. Sofaer 20; Meshorer, Caesarea 22; SNG ANS 873. 12.45gr. 24mm, 12h

Near Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.