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  • Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary
    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.





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  • Etruscan Bronze Statuette of Herakles
    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.





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  • Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis
    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.





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  • Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot
    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.





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  • Life-Size Roman Marble Sleeping Girl from a Sarcophagus Lid
    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.





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  • Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds
    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.





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  • Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull
    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.





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  • The Kelton Gandharan Head of a Bodhisattva
    '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. Tudor, Elizabeth I AR Sixpence.
    England. Tudor, Elizabeth I AR Sixpence. Dated 1561.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

    Third issue; m.m. pheon. Type bust 3D. ELIZABETH D G ANG FR ET HIB REGINA, crowned and draped bust with hair brushed back to left; plain rose behind / POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV, long cross fourchée over square shield, date above. North 1997; SCBC 2559. 2.79gr, 25mm, 9h

    Near Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • England. Stuart, James I AR Sixpence.
    England. Stuart, James I AR Sixpence. Dated 1603.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £104

    First coinage; second bust. IACOBVS D G ANG SCO FRA ET HIB REX, crowned and draped bust to right, XII behind; 'thistle' mintmark / EXVRGAT DEVS DISSIPENTVR INIMICO, arms; date above. SCBC 2648. 2.51gr, 26mm, 3h

    Near Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • England. Stuart, Charles I AR Halfcrown.
    England. Stuart, Charles I AR Halfcrown. 1644-1645.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £52

    Tower mint. CAROLVS D G MAG BRI FRA ET HIB REX, third horseman king trotting to left with cloak flying over shoulder, sword upright; uncertain mintmark / CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO, garnished oval shield; '(R)' mintmark. SCBC 2778. 15.56gr, 34mm, 2h

    Near Fine.

    Found in Hampshire, UK.

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  • England. Stuart, Charles I AR Sixpence.
    England. Stuart, Charles I AR Sixpence. 1625-1649.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £52

    Tower mint; mm: plume. Struck 1630-1631. Group C; third bust; type 2a. Crowned and draped bust to left, wearing ruff; VI (mark of value) to right / Coat-of-arms with C.R. above. Brooker 591; North 2238; SCBC 2809. 2.80gr, 24mm, 7h

    Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Scotland. Alexander III AR Penny.
    Scotland. Alexander III AR Penny. 1249-1286.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £130

    First Coinage, Sterling. Type VIII. +ALEXANDER REX, crowned head to right with thick jewelled crown / [...] N ON B(?) [...], long cross voided with pellet terminals, stars of six points in angles. SCBC 5047. 1.32gr, 17mm

    Very Fine. Edge chipped.

    Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

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  • Scotland. Alexander III AR Penny.
    Scotland. Alexander III AR Penny. 1249-1286.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £143

    Second coinage. Circa 1280-1286. +ALEXANDER DEI GRA, crowned bust to left with sceptre / +REX SCO TOR VM, long cross; six-rayed star in each angle. SCBC 5054. 1.28gr, 19mm, 4h

    Near Very Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Scotland. Robert II AR Halfpenny.
    Rare
    Scotland. Robert II AR Halfpenny. 1371-1390.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £195

    Edinburgh mint. +ROBЄRTVS RЄX, crowned bust to left with sceptre / VIL ΛЄD INB BVR, voided long cross, pierced mullet of five points in angles. SCBC 5152. 0.45gr, 14mm, 12h

    Good Fine. Toned; uneven flan. Rare; unusual mint spelling.

    Found in Suffolk, UK.

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  • Ireland. Edward I AR Penny.
    Ireland. Edward I AR Penny. 1216-1272.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £156

    Dublin mint. Second coinage, 1279-1302. Type Ia. Crowned bust facing with trefoil of pellets below; all within triangle / CIVI TAS DVBL InIE, long cross pattée, three pellets in each angle. D.F.63; SCBC 6246A. 1.20gr, 19mm, 7h

    Fine - Good Fine.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Anglo-Gallic. Edward III AR Half-Esterlin / Demi-Sterling.
    Rare
    Anglo-Gallic. Edward III AR Half-Esterlin / Demi-Sterling. As Duke of Aquitaine, 1327-1377.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £260

    Uncertain mint. EDWARD REX ANGL', crowned bust facing slightly to left; below, leopard to left / DVX AQVITANIE, long cross pattée terminating in quatrefoils; crowns in each quarter. AGC 57; Elias 57; SCBC 8048. 0.54gr, 14mm, 3h

    Fine. Rare.

    Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

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  • Ireland. Edward VI Brass Shilling - Bungal.
    Rare
    Ireland. Edward VI Brass Shilling - 'Bungal'. 1557-1553.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £546

    Dated 1551. Contemporary cast imitation of the Dublin mint. ЄDWARD VI: D. G. AGL. FRAN. Z: HB. RЄX, crowned and mantled bust to right / TIMOR DOMINI: FONS: VITЄ: N: E: XL: TX:, garnished coat-of-arms; E R flanking. SCBC 6494A. 4.62gr, 32mm, 3h

    Good Fine. Small split to flan. Rare.

    Found on various UK sites since 1974; Property of an Essex collector.

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  • England. Medieval to Tudor Mixed AR Coin Group.
    England. Medieval to Tudor Mixed AR Coin Group. 1413-1422.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £182

    Comprising: mixed monarchs, issues and reverse types including Pennies of Henry II, III, Edward I, III and others, a Shilling and Penny of James I, and coins of Elizabeth I, plus Half Groats of Edward III and Henry VII with rosette stops. 28.38gr, 15-28mm

    Fair - Good Fine.

    Found Yorkshire, UK.

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  • England. Stephen-Henry III, AR Cut Halfpenny and Farthing Group.
    England. Stephen-Henry III, AR Cut Halfpenny and Farthing Group. 1135-1272.

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £59

    Comprising: mixed monarchs, issues and reverse types including Stephen, Henry II, III, and a Scottish cut Halfpenny. 9.02gr, 12-20mm

    Fair - Very Fine.

    Found Yorkshire, UK.

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