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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England. Plantagenet, Edward III AR Penny. 1327-1377.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
York mint. Pre-treaty Period 1356-1361. Series D. ✠ EDWARDVS o REX o ANGLI, facing crowned bust / CIVI TAS EBO RACI, long cross with three pellets in each quarter. SCBC 1602. 0.92gr, 18mm, 10h
Very fine. Small split at 2h.
Found in Yorkshire, UK. -
England. Richard II AR Penny. 1377-1399.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
York mint. Local dies, group A. +RICARDVS REX AnGLIE, facing bust with cross on breast and pellet to each side of shoulders / CIVITAS EBORACI, long cross and pellets with quatrefoil at centre. SCBC 1692. 0.93gr, 18mm, 5h
Near Fine. Scarce.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. Richard II AR Halfpenny. 1377-1399.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
London mint. Type III, later style with fishtail letters. +RICARD REX ANGL, crowned facing bust / CIVITAS LONDON, long cross and pellets. SCBC 1700. 0.39gr, 14mm, 10h
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. Lancaster, Henry V AR Penny. 1413-1422.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
York mint. Class F. HENRICVS DI GRA REX A, crowned facing bust with mullet to left and trefoil to right / CIVI TAS EBO RACI, long cross with pellet-in-quatrefoil at centre and three pellets in each angle. SCBC 1788; North 1403. 0.94gr, 17mm, 1h
Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. -
England. Lancaster, Henry VI AR Penny. 1427-1434.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Calais mint. HENRICVS REX [mascle] ANGLIE, crowned facing bust; cross patonce mintmark / VIL[mascle]LA CALISIE[rosette], long cross with three pellets in each angle. SCBC 1865; North 1450. 0.94gr, 16mm, 5h
Good Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. -
England. Edward IV AR Halfpenny. 1461-1485.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
London mint. First Reign, 1461-1470. Light Coinage; struck circa 1464-1470. EDWARD × DI GRA REX, crowned facing bust within inner beaded circle / CIVITAS LOnDOn, long cross pattée, trefoil of pellets in each quarter. SCBC 2069; North 1608. 0.38gr, 12mm, 12h
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. York, Richard III 'Emery Copy' Groat. 19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
1483-1485. Type 2b. London mint. RICARD DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC, facing crowned bust in double tressure of nine arcs, fleurs on cusps, initial mark boars head 1 / CIVITAS LONDON and POSVI DEVM A DIVTOR E MEVM, long cross pattée, three pellets in each inner angle, initial mark rose. For prototype: SCBC 2156; North 1679. 2.99gr, 27mm, 1h
Good Extremely Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
England. Tudor, Henry VII AR Penny. 1485-1509.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
York mint. Thomas Rotherham, archbishop. Facing bust issue. Mint mark halved sun and rose. Crowned facing bust, T and trefoil at neck; cross on breast. / CIVI TAS EBO RACI, cross with pellets in each quarter, Lombardic h at centre. SCBC 2223. 0.63gr, 15mm, 9h
Near Fine.
Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974. -
England. Tudor, Henry VII AR Farthing. 1485-1509.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
London mint. [hENRIC DI GRA REX], crowned facing bust / [CIVITAS LONDON], long cross with pellets in angles. SCBC 2250; North 1739. 0.35gr, 15mm, 4h
Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. Tudor, Henry VIII AR Halfpenny. 1547-1551.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Canterbury mint; struck posthumously under Edward VI. H D G ROSA SINE SPIN, facing bust / CIVI TAS CAN TOR, long cross and pellets dividing. SCBC 2427. 0.31gr, 13mm, 11h
Good Fine.
From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman. -
England. Henry VIII AR Halfpenny. 1509-1547.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
York mint. First coinage, 1509-1526. [HENRIC DI GRA REX A], crowned facing bust, key below / [CIVITAS EBORACI], long cross and pellets in angles. SCBC 2335A. 0.23gr, 10mm
Good Fine. Rare.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
England. Tudor, Edward VI AR Penny. 1550-1553.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
London mint. Third period. E D G ROSA SINE SPINA, rose / CIVI TAS LON DON, long cross over arms. SCBC 2474. 0.46gr, 15mm, 12h
Fine. Chipped.
Found in Yorkshire, UK.