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  • Egyptian Stone Fish-Shaped Pallet
    Egyptian Stone Fish-Shaped Pallet

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,331

    A flat-section bifacial cosmetic palette of a fish with some later carved eye and gill detail, pierced; with old collector's label 'Falmouth Museum, purchased 1950'.





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  • Viking Gilt-Bronze Box Brooch with Entwined Animals
    Viking Gilt-Bronze Box Brooch with Entwined Animals

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £47,795

    A hollow-cast drum-shaped brooch with central cell to the upper face, red bead insert; the outer sidewall with lattice hatching, three dividing panels with knotwork motif; the upper face with beaded border and tribrach, three S-shaped animals in Salin's Style III; pin and catchplate to the reverse.





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  • Viking Gold Plaited Cromer Finger Ring
    Viking Gold Plaited 'Cromer' Finger Ring

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,865

    A triangular-section hoop of tightly plaited wire, the underside worked into a flat-section plaque.





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  • Viking Silver-Gilt Pendant with Odin Gripping Two Ravens
    Viking Silver-Gilt Pendant with Odin Gripping Two Ravens

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,559

    A cast discoid Scandinavian Viking pendant with integral loop, pelletted border enclosing a low-relief image of a male face between two birds, grasped by arms at the necks, small loop to the top.





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  • Medieval Gold Love conquers all: I am here in place of a lover Posy Ring
    Medieval Gold 'Love conquers all: I am here in place of a lover' Posy Ring

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,751

    A D-section hoop with three raised quatrefoil motifs to the outer face, stepped shoulders and pie-dish bezel with inset cabochon sapphire; to the chamfered outer faces of the hoop, the legend in seriffed capitals '+AM*ORVI*NCIT*IOMI' (amor vincit omnia: 'love conquers all') and '+IE*SVII*CIEN*LIVD' (ie sui ici en lieu: 'I am am here in place (of a lover)'.





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  • Post Medieval Gold Enamelled Ring with Full Skeleton and Multiple Emblems
    Post Medieval Gold Enamelled Ring with Full Skeleton and Multiple Emblems

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,993

    A D-section hoop with design to the outer face reserved against an enamelled field, the running design comprising a full-length skeleton with down-pointing arrow between the legs, crown above the head and below the feet; a transverse band with 'MEMO-MENRI-TOX' in three lines with pair of crossed fleur-headed sceptres and sword behind; crossed pick-and-spade with star below; another skull set between pair of antlers and an hourglass with scroll below; the details generally enhanced by engraving to the exposed gold areas; inscribed to the inner face in an italic hand 'Penelope Arnold ob.18 May 1728 æt. 42' and maker's mark 'ES' in blackletter script.





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  • Post Medieval Gold Noe joy in life like a good wife Posy Ring
    Post Medieval Gold 'Noe joy in life like a good wife' Posy Ring

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,299

    A plain D-section hoop with inscribed italic text to the inner face 'Noe joy in life like a good wife' and maker's mark 'DP' in a heater shield.





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  • Roman Gold Constantino Fidem Inscribed Military Ring
    Roman Gold 'Constantino Fidem' Inscribed Military Ring

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,719

    A substantial flat-section hoop with rectangular plaque, inscribed to the outer face in capitals 'CONSTANTINO' and to the plaque 'FIDEM' (loyalty to Constantine).





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  • Medieval King Robert the Bruce of Scotland and Dunfermline Abbey Cokete Seal Matrix Pair
    Medieval King Robert the Bruce of Scotland and Dunfermline Abbey Cokete Seal Matrix Pair

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £151,250

    The Cokete Seal of Dunfermline Abbey matrix pair, contained in a hinged wooden box with velvet-lined recesses and labels; the seal matrix in two parts with locating posts (these inserted and soldered in place) and sockets; the obverse matrix (with posts) depicting (reversed and incuse) St. Margaret, founder and benefactress of the abbey, in robe and crown with a sceptre, between two heater shields bearing the royal arms of Scotland (a lion rampant within a double tressure) and the arms of Dunfermline Abbey (a cross moline among five martlets) with the Lombardic legend to the border +S' COKETE REGALITATIS DE DVNFERMELYNN (Cokete Seal of the Regality of Dunfermline); the reverse (counterseal) matrix with heater shield within foliage depicting the royal arms of Scotland and border with the Lombardic legend +ROBERTVS DEI GRACIA REX SCOTORVM (Robert, by the Grace of God, King of the Scots) with floral ornament and quatrefoil stops; the antique, custom made, wooden box with old paper and ink label to the lid with monochrome depiction of the counterseal; also with paper labels to the inside of the box with handwritten text 'The Cokete Seal of the Regality of Dunfermline presented to S. Henderson by Hon. W. Ogilvie - Cowden's Muck(h)art 2nd February 1867' and 'The Cokete Seal of the Regality of Dunfermline A.D. 1323 - Vide Dalyells Monastic Antiquities page 72: - Mercers History of Dunfermline page 63 Chalmers's History of Dunfermline no.1 page 253 (E. Henderson 2 Feb. 1867)'; also with inked date 'Feby 2d 1867'; offered with original editions of three books (listed below) which refer to this matrix pair and a bound set of research notes.





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  • Medieval Bronze St Andrew Oval Seal Matrix
    Medieval Bronze 'St Andrew' Oval Seal Matrix

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,057

    A stamp seal with strap and loop to the reverse; intaglio design of St. Andrew facing, tied to a saltire cross; to the border the Lombardic script legend 'S' WILL'.CAPELLANI+ANDREA:PIE' (seal of William, Chaplain of St Andrew); accompanied by an impression and collector's relevant data cards.





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  • Medieval Ferdinand I of Hungary Denar Coin Obverse Die
    Medieval Ferdinand I of Hungary Denar Coin Obverse Die

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,993

    A wrought iron obverse die used to strike a hammered billon denar coin of Ferdinand I (1526-1564 AD), probably from the royal mint at Kremnitz; the shaft of rectangular section, reducing to a circular die face depicting the Hungarian arms with date above and FERDINAND D G R VNG legend, all reversed and incuse; the head of the die showing burring from being hammered in striking coins; the corresponding reverse for this coin would depict Mary, crowned and seated and holding the infant Jesus with PATRONA VNGARIE legend; accompanied by an impression taken from the this die and a print showing the coin type produced.





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  • Irish Early Christian Bronze Openwork Appliqué
    Irish Early Christian Bronze Openwork Appliqué

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,100

    A hexagonal cast openwork fitting pierced at each angle and centrally; the border formed as slightly curved panels of regular mono-linear Insular Style interlace with a wave pattern to the inner edge; the central openwork panel formed as a central collet and four quadrupeds, each with a narrow muzzle and leaf-shaped ear, the legs terminating in loops passing over and under the body and limbs; six plain radiating bars across the border, each with a hole; the narrow front and rear sides each with an outward slightly chamfered edge, lateral lugs with evidence of piercing to form a hinge or closure.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Casket Appliqué
    Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Casket Appliqué

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,840

    A flat-section cast plaque with pierced discoid lobe to each angle, pierced centre; the surface divided by radiating lines and concentric rings into ornamental panels, the central four with mono-linear interlace, the outer panel group with alternating Trewhiddle Style regardant beasts with hatched bodies and scrolled tendrils, two bilinear interlace panels above each pierced lobe; the outer border plain.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Casket Appliqué
    Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Casket Appliqué

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,324

    A flat-section cast plaque with pierced discoid lobe to each angle, pierced centre; the surface divided by radiating ropework lines and concentric rings into ornamental panels, the central four with mono-linear interlace, the outer group with alternating Trewhiddle Style regardant beasts and scrolled tendrils, interlace above each pierced lobe; the outer border with ropework and hatched ornament.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Casket Appliqué
    Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Casket Appliqué

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,872

    A flat-section cast plaque with pierced discoid lobe to the angle, pierced centre; the surface divided by radiating lines and a ring into ornamental panels, the central four with mono-linear interlace, the outer panel group with alternating Trewhiddle Style hatched regardant beasts and interlace panels, with interlace panels to the outer edges; the outer trilinear border plain.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Bronze Chip-Carved Disc Casket Appliqué
    Anglo-Saxon Bronze Chip-Carved Disc Casket Appliqué

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,299

    A thin (0.7mm) slightly domed disc with chamfered lip to the outer edge, pierced at the centre and close to the periphery, decorated with dense ornament comprising a border, cross and quadrants; the border with running meander pattern extending onto the rim; the cross with two arms in loose bilinear interlace and two with dense, regular interlace, all within narrow borders; the centre with an incised D-shaped panel on each internal edge; two quadrants with a La Tène Style triskele of discs among scrolled tendrils, remaining two quadrants with opposed Insular Style animals with extended lappets forming a frame of interlace, ring-and-dot to the shoulder and hip.





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  • Roman Iron Spatha Sword
    Roman Iron Spatha Sword

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,630

    A broad (4.5cm at shoulder) parallel-sided spatha with convergent tip, lentoid in section with one square and one slightly rounded shoulder; rectangular-section tang at the shoulder developing to square-section at the upper end, hammered over a domed bronze pommel-cap.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Coins - Coenwulf - London / Diola - Tribrach Penny
    Anglo-Saxon Coins - Coenwulf - London / Diola - Tribrach Penny

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,035

    796-821 AD, BMC type iii. Obv: Mercian M with contraction bar over and +COENVVL.F.R.EX legend with lozenge O and pellets set high. Rev: tribrach with DI OL A with lozenge O in angles for the moneyer Diola at London mint.





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  • Anglo-Saxon Coins - Ecgberht of Wessex - Winchester / Bosa - SAXON Monogram Penny
    Anglo-Saxon Coins - Ecgberht of Wessex - Winchester / Bosa - SAXON Monogram Penny

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,049

    802-839 AD, BMC xviii. Obv: SAXON monogram with +ECGBEORHT REX legend. Rev: central cross with +BOZA MONETA legend for the moneyer Bosa at a south-western mint (believed to be Winchester).





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  • Norman Coins - William I - Sandwich / Aelfget - Two Sceptres Penny
    Norman Coins - William I - Sandwich / Aelfget - Two Sceptres Penny

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,570

    1072-1074 AD, BMC type iv. Obv: facing bust with cross patteé headed sceptre left and cross botonné headed right and PILLEM REX IING legend. Rev: cross fleury with annulet centre over saltire botonné and +IELFGETONSIINI legend for the moneyer Aelfget at Sandwich mint.





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  • Norman Coins - William II - Lincoln / Ulf - Cross in Quatrefoil Penny
    Norman Coins - William II - Lincoln / Ulf - Cross in Quatrefoil Penny

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,089

    1089-1092 AD, BMC type ii. Obv: facing bust with sword and +PIL[LELM R]EX legend. Rev: cross in quatrefoil with [+]VLFONLIN[COL?]NE legend for the moneyer Ulf at Lincoln mint.





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  • Norman Coins - Henry I - London / Thodred - Round Halfpenny
    Norman Coins - Henry I - London / Thodred - Round Halfpenny

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,812

    1107 AD. Obv: uncrowned facing bust with HENRIC REX legend. Rev: cross potent with quatrefoils in angles with +TORED.ON[LI]IN legend with pellet set high, for the moneyer Tored (Thodred) at London mint; with official snick to edge of flan; with a printout from EMC of other recorded specimens.





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  • Norman Coins - Stephen - York - Flag Type Penny
    Norman Coins - Stephen - York - Flag Type Penny

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,815

    136-1154 AD, York group, circa 1150 AD. Obv: profile bust with lance and flag and mullet below and +STIEFNE R legend. Rev: cross moline with fleurs in angles and +*PT[I]*ETS*NC*V legend with triple pellet after V and where * represents four ornamental symbols within the legend.





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  • World Coins - Scotland - Robert II - Dundee / Bonagius - Groat
    World Coins - Scotland - Robert II - Dundee / Bonagius - Groat

    Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,537

    1371-1390 AD. Obv: profile bust with sceptre having saltire at base, with letter 'B' behind (for the moneyer Bonagius), within tressure and +ROBERTVS DEI GRA REX SCOTOR legend. Rev: long cross and mullets with +DNS PTECT MS Z LIBATOR MS and +VILLA DVNDE legends for Dundee mint.





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