Auction Highlights
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Irish Medieval Hammered Coins - Edward IV - Waterford - Long Cross Groat
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,029
1473-1478 AD, third issue, light coinage. Obv: facing bust with G on breast within tressure with fleurs to points and EDWARDVS DEI GRA DNS HYBERN legend and 'rose' initial mark. Rev: pattee long cross and triple pellets with saltire to first and third quadrants dividing POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS WATERFOR for Waterford mint. -
Irish Tudor Hammered Coins - Henry VII - Dublin - Three Crowns Groat
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,089
1485-1487 AD, early issue. Obv: triple pellet-ended cross over arms with REX ANGLIE Z FRANCIE legend with 'lis' initial mark and 'rose' after ANGLIE. Rev: triple pellet-ended cross over three crowns dividing DOMINVS HYBERNIE legend. -
Irish Tudor Hammered Coins - Henry VII - Dublin - Three Crowns Halfgroat
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,420
1488-1490 AD, late three crowns issue. Obv: triple annulet-ended cross over arms dividing HENRICVS legend. Rev: triple annulet-ended cross over three crowns (no 'h' below) dividing CIVITAS DEBL legend for Dublin mint. -
Irish Tudor Hammered Coins - Henry VII - Dublin - Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,388
1503-1507 AD, third period, late portrait issue, class III. Obv: facing bust with open crown and [ ]RIC[ ]AN[ ] legend. Rev: fourchee long cross and triple pellets dividing CIV ITA SDV BL legend for Dublin mint with rosette before DV. -
Scottish Medieval Hammered Coins - Robert the Bruce - Halfpenny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,029
1306-1329 AD. Obv: profile bust with sceptre and +ROBERTVS DEI GRA legend. Rev: long cross and five-point mullet to two quarters with SCOTORVM REX+ legend. -
Ancient Greek Coins - Leontini - Apollo Tetradrachm
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,210
450-420 BC. Obv: laureate head of Apollo right. Rev: LEO-NTI-NO-N legend with head of roaring lion right, four barley grains around. -
Ancient Iron Age Celtic Coins - Catuvellauni - Cunobelin - Portrait Silver Unit
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,936
1st century BC. Obv: profile bust right with CVNOBELINI legend. Rev: horse right with crescent above and TASCIO below. -
Ancient Iron Age Celtic Coins - Catuvellauni - Cunobelin - Variant Hunting Dog Silver Unit
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,573
10-40 AD, variant type. Obv: rectangular panel with CVN inscription and beaded border. Rev: hunting dog (clawed feet) left. -
Anglo-Saxon Hammered Coins - Eclectic Sceatta - LVNDONIA and Triquetras Type
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,694
710-760 AD, triquetras type, variety 5. Obv: profile bust right with LVNDONIA legend for London. Rev: interlaced cross with triquetra terminals and pellets. -
English Tudor Hammered Coins - Henry VIII - Gold Half Sovereign
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,452
1544-1547 AD, third coinage. Obv: king enthroned facing holding orb and sceptre with rose at feet and HENRIC 8 D G AGL FRANCI Z HIBE REX legend with Roman Ns and 'pellet-in-circle' mintmark. Rev: crowned arms with supporters and monogram below with IHS AVTEN TRANSIENS PER MEDIVM ILLORVM IBAT legend with Lombardic Ms and Ns. -
World Coins - United States - 1793 - Flowing Hair Liberty / Chain Reverse One Cent
Sold for (Inc. bp): £24,200
Dated 1793, first issue type, Sheldon-2, Breen 1-B (wide date obverse and AMERICA reverse). Obv: profile Liberty bust right with flowing hair, date below and LIBERTY legend. Rev: circular chain of 15 links (the link below N of UNITED slightly doubled) with ONE CENT 1/100 in three lines at centre and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA legend. Edge: vine and bars, rim plain. -
Chinese Carved Amethyst Sceptre Head
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,146
A carved and polished amethyst sceptre head in the form of a jui-i or sacred fungus (for longevity) with graduated ribbing to the outer edge, two scrolls to the upper face and intersecting arcs to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand. -
Post Medieval Scottish Gold Signet Ring with Maker's Mark
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,082
A D-section hoop with expanding facetted shoulders, octagonal bezel with pelletted border, intaglio lion rampant device. -
Post Medieval Tudor Silver 'Francis Vaughn at Hergest Court, Herefordshire' Hawking Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,260
A silver hawking leg ring consisting of a band inscribed to the outer surface *F.VAGHAN in Roman letters; with attached heater shield bearing the engraved crest of a male head with a snake wrapped around his throat; this crest attributed to the Vaughn family of Herefordshire and to Francis Vaughn (died 1597). -
Post Medieval Silver Hawking Whistle with 'HF' Initials
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,331
A tubular body with spherical end, ring and loop above; chamfered slot with incised 'H*F' above. -
Egyptian Gilt Cartonnage Mummy Mask
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,050
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; pellet and billet detail to the throat and chest. -
Near Eastern Luristan Bronze Bone-Handled Dirk with Aramaic Inscription
Sold for (Inc. bp): £908
A cast Bronze Age dirk or dagger with lentoid-section blade, rectangular panel to the shoulder with chiselled text in a Semitic script, probably Aramaic, to one face, from right to left q[?]'hzg (the apostrophe indicating the letter aleph), probably an acronym or an inscription of mystical meaning; opposed flanges to the each face of the lower grip bent over to retain a carved bone insert with ear-shaped terminals, transverse ribbing. -
Saxon Gold Ring with Garnet Cloison
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,420
A pair of beaded filigree bands forming the hoop, the bezel funicular with four granules to the base, the upper face set with a discoid garnet cloison. -
Viking Bronze Zoomorphic Plate Brooch
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,050
A cast zoomorphic brooch with chamfered sides and ends, convex upper face, slightly waisted in plan; to the upper face a raised median ridge with ropework detail, flanking zoomorphic ornament with knotwork limbs and hatched panels; small hole to one end for attachment of a necklace or chain; to the underside, the pin-lugs and catchplate with ferrous accretion from the pin. -
Viking Bronze Zoomorphic Pin-Joint Plaque
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,260
A cast flat-section plaque with angled lower end, scrolled bulb to the upper end, chip-carved zoomorphic Style III ornament in three bands; loop-and-tongue motif to the lower finial; to the reverse, two parallel longitudinal plates pierced to accept mounting pins for bead swags, one glass bead trapped between. -
Viking Bronze Oseberg Style Openwork Roundel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £6,050
A cast bifacial openwork roundel with cruciform spokes and central void; the rim octagonal in section with D-shaped plates; to each quadrant an Oseberg Style bird. -
Anglo-Saxon Gilt-Bronze Shield Mount
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,331
A cast chip-carved discoid mount with heavy gilding, the rim pelletted; central motif of four serpents bound in a knot, each body formed of three strands, the central strand beaded; remains of three studs to the reverse. -
Viking Hiberno-Norse Gilt-Bronze Mount with Addorsed Birds
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,057
A gilt harness mount with narrow neck and broader finial; the neck with a regular chip-carved Insular Style interlace; the finial formed as a pair of addorsed birds to be viewed reversed as two conjoined zoomorphic masks, each with an ear at the junction of the neck; median piercing above the lower edge; pierced lug to the reverse. -
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Coptic Bowl
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,388
A very large Coptic bronze bowl of approximately circular form, the rim with an external ridge; cast with a pair of loops to each side for separate drop handles, one handle missing; the rim interior incised with five linear bands; the sides tapering to a ring foot with zig-zag openwork decoration; the interior of the bowl with ferrous accretions indicating where the iron ladle was placed. -
Viking Lead Trade Weight with Gilt-Bronze Insert Panel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,324
A thick triangular weight with gilt-bronze panel to the upper face, decorated in Insular Style; the lead weight roughly cast with lip to the upper edges; the panel triangular, displaying a serpentine creature with spiral shoulder and hip reserved against a field of chip-carved diaperwork. -
Medieval Silver 'Diamond Point' Spoon
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,299
A broad piriform bowl and round-section handle with facetted diamond-point finial; stamped mark to rear of the handle above the junction with the bowl. -
Medieval Gilt-Bronze Enamelled 'Howard Family' Heraldic Horse Harness Pendant with Hanger
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,178
A cast harness pendant and suspender with enamelled heraldic detail; the suspender a segmented rosette with lugs below, stud to the reverse; the pendant a flat-section sexfoil with enamelled heater shield blazoned 'gules a bend argent between six cross-crosslets fitchee of the same', the arms of the Howard family. -
Medieval Bronze 'Earls of Arundel' Heraldic Horse Pendant with Hanger
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,029
A heater shield pendant with enamel in the field, rampant lion motif; with a hanger with same motif; the arms are blazoned 'gules a lion rampant or'.
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