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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Electrotype of Gordian II AE Sestertius. AD 238.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rome mint. IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust to right, seen from behind / ROMAE AETERNAE, Roma seated to left, holding Victory in her right hand and long sceptre in her left; at her side, shield; S C in exergue. For prototype: BMC 23; Cohen 9; RIC 5. 24.99gr, 30mm, 12h
Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Post Crondall AV Thrymsa-Shilling. Circa 650-675.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,730
Mint in Kent(?). Pale Gold Phase. ‘Two Emperors’ type. Diademed and draped bust to right; pseudo legend around / Two small busts facing, holding two orbs between them; above, Victory with wings enfolding the figures; pellets at each side of Victory’s head. Sutherland 32-42; A&W Type V.xxvii; Metcalf 79-80; SCBI 63 (BM), 23-5; SCBI 69 (Abramson); North 20; SCBC 767. 1.22gr, 11mm, 12h
Near Extremely Fine.
Found in Norfolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. Circa 810-830.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
EDILRED REX within beaded border, around central cross / EANRED within beaded border, around central cross. SCBC 865. 0.90gr, 12mm
Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Eadred AE Styca. Circa 810-830.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
[...]RED REX within beaded border, around central small cross / +EADVI[...] within beaded border, around pellet in beaded circle. SCBC 862. 0.94gr, 14mm
Fine - Near Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Viking. Danish East Anglia, St Edmund Memorial AR Penny. 885-915.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
+SCEA+DI, top-barred A / +BAHIMOI, small cross within wreath. SCBC 961. 1.36gr, 18mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine. Bend.
Property of a Colchester, UK, collector. -
England. Aethelred II AR Penny. 978-1016.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
Totnes mint. Crux type, 991-997. Beorhtwine, moneyer. + ÆÐELRED REX ΛNGLOX, bare-headed draped bust to left with sceptre in front in solid inner circle / +BTRHTPINE MEO TOTA with NE ligated and E reversed, voided short cross, CRVX in angles, in solid inner circle. BEH 3838; North 770; SCBI 7 (Copenhagen), 1256; SCBI 51 (Estonia), 100; SCBC 1148. 1.21gr, 12mm, 9h
Very Fine. Flan crack at 3h. Viking peck marks.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
England. Edward the Confessor AR Penny. AD 1042-1066.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Stamford, Brunwine. Pacx type, AD 1042-1044. Diademed bust to left, sceptre before / +BRINI ON ST: AN:, voided long cross extending from central annulet, limbs terminating with a crescent, a letter of PACX in each angle. B.M.C IV; N 813; SCBC 1171. 0.84gr, 17mm, 1h
Good Fine. Flan crack at 1h. Very rare; only five similar coins recorded on the Early Medieval Corpus (EMC) at the Fitzwilliam museum.
From an old UK collection; From the collection of a London antiquarian. -
England. Norman, William I AR Penny. 1066-1087.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Canterbury mint. Ealdred, moneyer. Bonnet type (BMC ii). +PILLEM REX, crowned bust facing / +EALDRED ON CA, pellet and crescent ended voided cross with annulet at centre and pile in angles. SCBC 1251; North 842. 1.22gr, 18mm, 6h
Near Extremely Fine.
From the private collection of a Sussex, UK, gentleman. -
England. Norman, Stephen AR Cut Farthing. 1135-1154.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
York mint. Flag Type. Crowned and draped bust to right, holding staff with flag or 'triple banner' in right hand; unclear symbol in field to right of banner / Cross moline within wreath; eight-rayed star and part of legend. Mack 217; North 919; SCBC 1313. 0.26gr, 14mm
Near Extremely Fine. Very Rare.
Found near Louth, Lincolnshire, UK, 2024; Recorded in Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds (EMC) of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2023.0495. -
England. Plantagenet, Richard I AR Penny. 1189-1199.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
London mint. Class 3A. HENRICVS REX, facing bust with sceptre / +[... ].ON.LVN, short voided cross and quatrefoils. SCBC 1347A. 1.19gr, 20mm, 3h
Near Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market; From the private collection of Mr G.B., Hampshire, UK. -
England. Plantagenet, Henry III AR Penny. 1216-1272.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Bury St Edmunds mint. Simund, moneyer. Class 7b. hENRICVS REX, crowned, facing bust with sceptre / +SIMVND (M as H) ON SAT, short cross voided with quatrefoil in each angle. SCBC 1356B. 1.31gr, 17mm, 10h
Good Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
England. Plantagenet, Henry III AR Penny. 1216-1272.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Bristol mint. Struck 1248-1250. Elis, moneyer. Long cross coinage, class 3b. ★ hЄNRICVS(NR ligate) RЄX • III, crowned facing bust / ЄLI SON(ON ligate) BR VST, voided long cross, with central pellet; triple pellets in quarters. SCBC 1363; C&T 15. 1.34gr, 17mm, 4h
Good Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK.