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Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Bare-headed, bearded and draped bust to right / Blank. Apparently unpublished. 5.47gr, 19mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 4th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Two imperial, diademed(?) and draped busts facing third imperial, facing, diademed(?) and draped bust at the centre / Blank. Cf. Leukel 123-126. 3.13gr, 13mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Bare-headed, bearded and draped bust (Hercules?) to right; club(?) before / Blank. Cf. Leukel 242. 8.46gr, 14mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Roman Imperial PB Seal. 1st-3rd century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Uncertain mint in Egypt. Draped bust of Serapis to right, wearing kalathos / Blank. Rostowzew & Prou -; Leukel -; cf. Récamier 463. 7.51gr, 14mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 3rd-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Monogram of THB / Blank. Leukel -. 19.30gr, 22mm x 10mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Roman Imperial PB Seal. Circa 3rd-5th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
CЄK-H(sic)[...], draped bust to right / Blank. For similar cf. Leukel 141-142. 8.31gr, 17mm x 12mm.
Condition as seen.
From an English collection formed before 2000. -
Bolivia, Colonial (as Alto Peru). Felipe II, King of Spain AR 8 Reales. 1556-1598.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,040
Potosí mint; uncertain date. Assayer A. Cob issue. Crowned Hapsburg coat-of-arms; P A to left, O VIII to right / Arms of Castille and Leon in quarters of Jerusalem cross, all within ornate quadrilobe. S P11; KM 5.1; Cal 674. 26.84gr, 38mm, 4h.
Very Fine. Double obverse struck. Very rare assayer.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Likely recovered 1985 from Atocha Shipwreck. -
Canada, British Colonial. Bank of Upper Canada CU Penny. 1850-1857.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Heaton (Birmingham) mint. Dated 1857. John Pinches, engraver. Design by Benedetto Pistrucci. BANK OF UPPER CANADA ❀ 1857 ❀, St. George on horseback to right, holding sword with right hand and wearing plumed helmet and billowing cloak, slaying the dragon which falls to right; small R.K. & Co. beneath ground line to right / BANK ❀ TOKEN ❀ ONE • PENNY ❀, crown over crossed sword and anchor set on two cornucopiae; Union jack to upper right. Breton 719; Charlton PC-6; KM Tn3. 15.77gr, 33mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
The initials 'R.K. & Co.' are for agent's mark of Rowe, Kentish, & Co., which is the agent that the Bank of Upper Canada used to place their orders. -
Germany. Münster (Bistum), Everhard von Diest AR Pfennig. 1275-1301.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Undated. Inscription off flan, bishop seated facing, wearing mitre and holding crosier and book / [PAVL]-VS AP-OST[O], facing bust of St Paul, cross above, x flanking; all within triangle. Ilisch XIII.1; Grote 36. 1.20gr, 14mm, 3h.
Good Fine.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Germany, Baltic Territories. Teutonic Order, Michael Küchmeister von Sternberg AR Schilling. 1414-1422.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Danzig (Gdansk) mint. Struck 1416-1422. [MAG]S-T MIC-hAЄL PRIM, Grandmasters shielded arms on long cross pattée / MONЄ-[TA DN-ORVM] PRVC, shielded arms on long cross pattée. Cf. Davenport, Baltic 274; cf. Voßberg 801. 1.39gr, 20mm, 7h.
Good Fine.
From a private Barnsley, UK, family collection. -
Low Countries, Flanders. Charles the Bold AR Double Patard. 1467-1477.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Bruges mint; i.m: cross pattée. ✠ KAROLVS ⦂ DЄI ⦂ GRA ⦂ DVX ⦂ BVRG ⦂ CO ⦂ F[LA], shield with Burgundian arms / ✠ SIT ⦂ NOᙏЄN ⦂ DOᙏINI ⦂ [BЄ]NЄDICTVᙏ ⦂ (firesteel), short floriate cross with fleur-de-lis in centre. Gelder Hoc 23-3; Boudeau 2267; Vanhoudt 32-BG. 2.75gr, 27mm, 5h.
Good Fine.
From a private Barnsley, UK, family collection. Accompanied by copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report, with reference no. NLM-1A5A10. -
Italy. Milano (duchy), Louis XII BI Trillina or 3 Denari. Circa 1500-1512.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Milano mint. + LV' D G' FRANCOR' REX', three lis / (Lis) MEDIOLANI' DVX' C', cross fleurée. C. 1025; Mar. 2207; Dy. 737. 1.08gr, 15mm, 9h.
Very Fine.
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.