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'.

Ten silver Dirhams of the Abbasid dynasty. 23.40gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Ten silver Dirhams from the Abbasid dynasty. 29.29gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Ten silver Dirhams of the Abbasid dynasty. 29.24gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Ten silver Dirhams of the Abbasid dynasty. 29.94gr total



Acquired on the UK market before 2000; Property of a London, UK, gentleman.

Bale-mark of the English East India Company, date divided by oval rosette / Denomination and date AH1202. Scho.957a; KM 257.1; Pr. 19. 6.70gr, 25mm, 6h

Very Fine.

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

Soho (Birmingham) Mint. Bale-mark of the English East India Company, date divided by oval rosette / Value and date. Scholten 957a; KM 257.1; Prid.19. 3.27gr, 20mm, 6h

Very Fine.

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

[MO · NO · ARG] · CIV · GRONINGAE 16[...], crowned arms of the city of Groningen dividing value, date above crown / CONCORDIA · RES · PAR[VAE · CRESCUNT ·], knight on horseback to right, brandishing sword, privy mark (siren) at end of legend. KM 48; Ver 186.1. 3.68gr, 27mm, 12h

Fine.

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

ADVANCE NEW ZEALAND, Māori warrior with moko (facial tattoo) facing slightly to right, holding spear with right hand and shield with left / NEW ZEALAND, Māori warrior standing facing, holding shield and spear with right hand and patu with left; palm tree, kiwi, mountains and Waka in background. KM Tn49. 13.27gr, 34mm, 6h

Good Extremely Fine.

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

Bromberg mint. • SIG • III • D • G • REX • PO • M • D • L •, crowned bust to right / Coat of arms flanked by Polish eagle and Lithuanian horse and rider; mark of value above, • GROS • ARG • TRI • R • PO • 98 (coat of arms) B • in three lines below. Iger B.98.5.d/e; Kopicki 1125. 1.90gr, 19mm, 10h

Very Fine.

From a UK private collection.

Royal mint of Segovia. Dated 1623. PHILIPPVS · III · D · G, castle in crowned shield; to left, mintmark; to right, VIII (mark of value); c/m: uncertain / HISPANIARVM · REX, lion in crowned shield, date at right; c/m: crown above uncertain date. 6.44gr, 27mm, 12h

Good Very Fine.

Found in Wiltshire, UK, before 1974.

Mexico mint. CAROLUS IIII DEI GRATIA, laureate and draped bust to right, date below / HISPAN ET IND REX o/M 8R F M, crowned arms between pillars. KM# 109. 25.23gr, 40mm, 12h

Very Fine.

Acquired on the UK art market; From the private collection of Mr G.B., Hampshire, UK.

ISABEL 2A POR LA G· DE DIOS Y LA CONST·, laureate head of Queen Isabella II to right, date below / REINA DE LA ESPAÑAS, crowned coat of arms of Spain with Pillars of Hercules; denomination below. Edge inscription: LEY PATRIA REY. For prototype: KM 609. 21.00gr, 37mm, 12h

Very Fine.

Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.