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Greek Leontini - Sicily - Apollo Tetradrachm
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,815
Circa 440-430 BC. Obv: laureate head of Apollo left. Rev: LE-ON-TI-NOY legend with head of roaring lion left, laurel leaf behind, three barley grains around. -
Merovingian - Gold Tremissis
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,057
Circa 7th century AD, enigmatic issue. Obv: diademed profile bust right with the diadem ends extending through the legend and +/LSMd(N)/OVICO legend; the N possibly an extension of the diadem front jewel. Rev: equal armed cross within 'torc' inner border with +SAV[ ]MV legend. -
Anglo-Saxon Ceolwulf I - Waerbeald - East Anglia Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,260
821-823 AD. Obv: profile bust with +CEOLVVLF REX M legend with contraction bar above M. Rev: with DER BALD MONE legend in three lines for the moneyer Waerbeald at an East Anglian mint. -
English Medieval Richard III - London - Type 3 Groat
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,452
1483-1485 AD, type 3. Obv: facing bust in tressure with pellet below and RICARD DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC legend with 'sun-and-rose 2' mintmark. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS LONDON legends, with same mintmark, for London mint. -
Stuart James I - Gold Double Crown
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,815
1604-1619 AD, second coinage, fifth bust. Obv: profile bust with IACOBVS D G MAG BRIT FRAN ET HIB REX legend with 'tower' mintmark. Rev: crowned arms with 'I-R' to sides and HENRICVS ROSA REGNA IACOBVS legend. -
Post Medieval Gold Ring with Garnet
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,452
A D-section gold hoop with expanding shoulders featuring overlapping rosette detailing, discoid bezel and inset table-cut garnet; to the reverse, the initials 'TA' in a florid hand. -
Post Medieval Gold Decorated 'Content is a continuall tresure' Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,452
A D-section hoop with incised scroll ornament to the outer face, engraved to the inner face in a dense italic hand 'Content is a continuall tresure' with long 's' in 'tresure'. -
Post Medieval Gold 'In mind though not in sight' Decorated Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,662
A D-section hoop with deep cut rosette and tendril detail, inscribed to the inner face 'In mind though not in sight' with long 's'. -
Egyptian Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,420
A cartonnage mummy mask covered with gesso and decorated with gilding; the facial details picked out in black paint with white in the eyes and red outline to the Nemes crown striped headcloth; professionally conserved. -
Greek Lydian Monumental Relief of a Gryphon
Sold for (Inc. bp): £42,350
An impressive marble relief of a gryphon, advancing, with its right foreleg raised to a column, originally part of a pair, possibly architectural, a second griffin would have mirrored its stance; the creature’s musculature is superbly rendered, as are the feathers of the wings and the subtle shaping of the ribs; mounted on a custom-made display stand. -
Greek Apulian Red-Figure Volute Krater with Medusa Heads and Ladies of Fashion
Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,100
A fine and large volute krater of Magna Graecian workmanship; to the neck, a profile female bust between two scrolling motifs; a foliate band below the rim enlivened with dots of ochre slip; the everted rim with a pendant wave pattern to the underside; the exterior rim red with vertical black trails; below the rim, a row of six rosettes and a pattern of alternating pellets and pairs of trails; to the underside of the rim, a pendant wave pattern in black against a red backround; the exterior rim with wave pattern enlived with pale slip; the tall strap handles flanked by loops fashioned as arching swan heads; surmounted by volutes with white and yellow painted mascaroons styled as heads of Medusa on the front, the snakes in white slip, and reserved mascaroons on the reverse; Side A: an image of a seated fair-haired nude youth with three spears in the left hand, sword and scabbard in the right hand, reclining on a draped stool with shield leaning against the supporting column of an arch, flanked by a seated nude male with stephane and and spear and a standing female in a chiton with a hand-mirror; Side B: a column with draped ribbons in black and white, a skyphos above flanked by a seated female with wreath and casket and a nude male with staff, palmette to the neck; beneath each handle a volute palmette. -
Greek Gold Janiform Hair Ring Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,082
A matched pair of sheet gold hair ornaments, each a tapering hollow tube with beaded wire and filigree collar to each end beneath a janiform female head with piled conical hairstyle. -
Roman Gold Intaglio Ring with Standing Figure
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,210
A D-section hoop with expanding shoulders, elliptical bezel with inset black stone intaglio depicting a standing helmetted figure with cup in one hand. -
Anglo-Saxon Gilt-Bronze Cruciform Brooch, Beads and Wrist Clasps Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,865
A suite of Anglian female costume items comprising: a florid cruciform brooch with trapezoidal headplate and wings, three peripheral florid plaques each with a Style I face, deep bow with Style I crouching animals, trapezoidal footplate with raised eyes beneath and florid face finial, T-shaped silver appliqués to the four extremities, catchplate to the reverse and ferrous remains of the pin and attachment rods for the plaques; a matched pair of wrist-clasps with integral scrolled gusset plates (Hines's Form B18) with four discoid panels to each element; a restrung group of fusiform, discoid and globular amber beads with five biconical crystal beads and two green glass tubular beads. -
Anglo-Saxon Gilt-Bronze Saucer Brooch Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,235
A matched pair of cast saucer brooches, each with a deep flange, chamfered inner ridge with punched s-shaped motifs, a band of Style I decoration surrounding a central boss; to the reverse of each, a catchplate and pin-lugs with block of ferrous accretion. -
Anglo-Saxon Ceramic Horse-Warrior's Funerary Urn
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,210
A broad ceramic funerary urn, globular with broad sloping shoulder and everted rim; circumferential lines to the neck and shoulder; two bands of horseshoe stamps to the shoulder and sets of three stamps at the base of the neck. -
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Sceptre Finial
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,029
A cast sceptre finial comprising a piriform bulb and tubular sleeve surmounted by a bifacial female figure with zoomorphic detailing; supplied with a custom-made stand. -
Iron Age Celtiberian Lead Plaque with Horsemen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,029
A D-shaped plaque with high-relief design of the sun and birds over a scene of opposed horsemen, a row of symbols and another of birds; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Medieval Gold Bishop's Finger Ring with Cabochon Sapphire
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,420
A plain round-section hoop with elliptical bezel and inset sapphire cabochon. -
Medieval Gold Snake Ring Inscribed 'PRVDENTIA'
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,452
A barrel-section finger ring with textured outer face, formed as a snake gripping its tail; inscribed to the inner face in capitals 'PRVDENTIA' (wisdom).
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