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'.

Comprising: an Elizabeth II Crown and three Halfcrowns all dated 1953. SCBC 4136, SCBC 4137/A. 75.8gr total, 32-39mm

About Uncirculated.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Comprising: two George V Florins dated 1925 and 1931. SCBC 4022A. 22.18gr total, 28mm

Fine - Extremely Fine.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Comprising: George VI Halfcrowns dated 1940, 2 x 1945, 2 x 1947. SCBC 4080; SCBC 4101. 76.7gr total, 32mm

Good Extremely Fine - Uncirculated.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Comprising: two Third Coinage George VI Halfcrowns both dated 1950. SCBC 4106. 28.33gr total, 32mm

About Uncirculated.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Comprising: an Elizabeth II Crown and Halfcrown both dated 1960. SCBC 4143; SCBC 4145. 42.39gr total, 32-38mm

About Uncirculated.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Comprising: two George VI Halfcrowns both dated 1937. SCBC 4080. 28.26gr total, 32mm

About Uncirculated.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Comprising: four George V Halfcrowns dated 1931, 1934, 1935, and 1936. SCBC 4037. 62gr total, 32mm

Very Fine - Extremely Fine.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Comprising: a George VI Crown & Halfcrown both dated 1951. SCBC 4111; SCBC 4106. 42.5gr total, 32-38mm

About Uncirculated.

By inheritance; Property of a Lincolnshire lady.

Issue limit: 95,000. Irish Harp, £1 and two stars above, MILLENNIUM below / Boighter boat, which dates from the 1st century B.C., with EIRE 2000, 925 Sterling silver, in a capsule inside a black presentation box with certificate of authenticity. 89gr total, 67 x 67mm including box



From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Silver Proof Three-Coin Collection, FDC Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Allied Invasion of Europe, to mark the Anniversary of the D-Day Landings, two countries have joined forces with the United Kingdom to form a superb three-coin silver collection containing from France a one franc piece, from the United States of America a one dollar coin and from the United Kingdom a fifty pence coin. 258gr total, case 16.5cm

Proof.

Acquired on the UK art market; Property of a Essex, UK, collector. Accompanied by two certificates of authenticity issued by the Royal mint and one from Monnaie de Paris.

'Operation Overlord’, the Allied invasion of Europe, was undoubtedly the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken in the history of warfare. To Winston Churchill writing to President Roosevelt, it was 'by far the greatest thing we have ever attempted'. Its outstanding success was to spell the beginning of the end of Nazi oppression in Europe. Almost from the fall of France in 1940, plans began for her liberation and by the spring of 1944 more than three million troops had assembled in southern England in readiness for the landings on Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, the five Normandy beaches which covered a fifty mile front between Le Havre and Cherbourg. The exact date and location of the planned invasion was one of the best kept secrets of the war and Operation Overlord was able to begin after midnight on 6 June 1944, in the first hours of that 'longest day' that would forever be known as D-Day. The successful assault on the five beaches, the fierce battles that followed and the Allied breakout into France led to the victorious liberation of Paris on 25 August. By September most of France was free and within a year western Europe too, was free.

Design by Ramage. (mullet)THE(lozenge)ARMES(lozenge)OF(lozenge)BRISTOLL, around cable inner circle, ship issuing to left from castle / (mullet (lozenge)A(lozenge)BRISTOLL(lozenge)FARTHING, around cable inner circle, C(lozenge)B over 1652, small .R. below. Dickinson 12; Norweb 1460. 2.60gr, 21mm, 6h

Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

(mullet) WILLIAM(lozenge)BVTLER(lozenge)IN, shield containing Grocer's Arms / (mullet) WINCHESTER(lozenge)1657 around, (lozenge)B(lozenge) over W(lozenge)I in two lines. Dickinson 214; Norweb 2027. 1.21gr, 16mm, 6h

Very Fine.

Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.