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'.

Constantinople mint; struck AD 764-773. C LЄON P A MЧL, crowned facing bust of Leo III wearing loros, holding cross potent in right hand / COҺSƮAҺƮIҺOS S LЄOҺ O ҺЄOS, crowned facing busts of Constantine V and Leo IV, each wearing chlamys; cross above. DOC 2a.1; SB 1551. 4.34gr, 19mm, 6h

Extremely Fine.

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

Syracuse mint; struck AD 751-775. Leo III standing facing, wearing chlamys and crown and holding cross potent; to left, ΛЄ[...], to right, I and ΔЄCΠ / Constantine V and Leo IV standing facing, each wearing chlamys and crown and holding akakia; above, cross. DOC III 19; SB 1569; Berk 864; Spahr 333; Anastasi 435. 2.67gr, 19mm, 6h

Good Very Fine.

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

Constantinople mint. + IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ҺICA ✶, crosslet set on globus above two steps; in central medallion, crowned bust facing, Iധ AҺ flanking / + IധAҺҺ, ЄҺ X'ധ AVTOCRAT, ЄVSЄЬ' ЬASILЄVS RധMAIധ' in five lines; ornaments above and below. DOC 7a; SB 1792. 2.16gr, 22mm, 7h

Good Very Fine.

From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.

Constantinople mint. ✠ IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ҺICA✶, crosslet set on globus above two steps; in central medallion, crowned bust facing, Iധ-AҺ flanking / ✠ IധAҺҺ, ЄҺ Xധ AVTOCRAT, ЄVSЄЬ' ЬASILЄVS RധMAIധ' in five lines; ornament above and below. DOC 7a; SB 1792. 2.50gr, 21mm, 6h

Very Fine. Toned; blue and golden iridescence around the devices on both sides.

From a private UK collection in the 1980s; Property of a London antiquarian.

Constantinople mint. + IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ҺICA ✶, crosslet set on globus above two steps; in central medallion, crowned bust facing, Iധ AҺ flanking / + IധAҺҺ, ЄҺ X'ധ AVTOCRAT, ЄVSЄЬ' ЬASILЄVS RധMAIധ' in five lines; ornaments above and below. DOC 7a; SB 1792. 2.67gr, 22mm, 7h

Very Fine.

From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.

Constantinople mint. + IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ҺICA ✶, crosslet set on globus above two steps; in central medallion, crowned bust facing, Iധ AҺ flanking / + IധAҺҺ, ЄҺ X'ധ AVTOCRAT, ЄVSЄЬ' ЬASILЄVS RധMAIധ' in five lines; ornaments above and below. DOC 7a; SB 1792. 1.58gr, 20mm, 6h

Very Fine. Flan crack at 11h.

From a 1980s UK collection; Property of a London antiquarian.

St. Eugenius on horseback to right, holding cruciform sceptre; O A(ligate) ЄV-Γ-NI across fields, lis below / Emperor on horseback to right, holding lis-tipped sceptre; A-ΛЄ to right, Ͷ before, lis below, sun in upper right field. Bendall 52; SB 2619. 1.92gr, 21mm, 7h

Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types. 76.72gr total, 21-34mm

Fine - Good Fine.

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

Comprising: various emperors, issues and reverse types. 77.77gr total, 21-31mm

Fine - Good Fine.

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

Ten Byzantine Folles of various rulers. 82.00gr total



Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Large S within linear circle / Blank. Bendall, Weights -; Schlumberger, Poids de verre étalons monétiforms d'origine byzantine 37; De Rochesnard, Album des poids antiques, tome 3, G2a. 0.75gr, 14mm

Good Very Fine. Exceedingly Rare.

Collected from 1970-1999; From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.

In the name of Theodoros eparch. ΘΕΟΔധΡΟΥ ЄΠΑΡΧΟΥ, facing bust of the city prefect holding mappa in his raised right hand and sceptre(?) in his left / Blank. Bendall, Weights -; cf. Pondera Online 10866 & 7965 & 6075 (1 Gramma). 1.84gr, 20mm

Near Very Fine.

Collected from 1970-1999; From the collection of the late Mr S.M., London, UK.