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Click here to subscribe249-251 AD. Rome. Obv: IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG legend with radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: FELICITAS SAECVLI legend around, S-C across fields, Felicitas standing left, holding long caduceus and cornucopia. RIC 115c, Cohen 40; Sear 9395 var (bust type"). 42.17 grams. Extremely fine; fields smoothed. Scarce.
248 AD. Rome mint. Obv: MARCIA OTACIL SEVERA AVG legend with diademed and draped bust right. Rev: SAECVLARES AVGG legend with hippopotamus standing right; SC in exergue. RIC 200a; Sear 9170. 15.72 grams. With collector tickets. Commemorating the thousandth anniversary of the founding of Rome. Very fine.
355-3567 AD. Rome mint. Obv: FL IVL CONST-ANTIVS P F AVG legend with helmetted and cuirassed three quarter facing bust right, holding spear and shield. Rev: GLORIA REI-PVBLICAE legend with Roma (on left facing) and Constantinopolis (on right turned to left) enthroned holding between shield inscribed VOT / XXX MVLTI / XXXX in four lines, each holding sceptre and Constantinopolis with right foot on prow; mintmark palmRSMEpalm in exergue. RIC 291; Sear 17747. 4.42 grams. Ex Spink (with tickets, envelope and invoice at 2700"). Good extremely fine. Rare.
363-364 AD. Thessalonica mint. Obv: DN IOVIANVS PF PP AVG legend with laurel and rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VICTORIAE ROMANORVM legend with Jovian standing facing, head right, holding labarum and Victory on globe; mintmark TESB in exergue. RIC VIII Thessalonica 235; Sear 19213. 8.17 grams. Extremely fine.
364-367 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: DN PROCO-PIVS PF AVG legend with pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VOT V in two lines within laurel wreath; mintmark C . gamma below. RIC IX Constantinople 13e; Sear 19867. See Wildwinds.com (this coin"). 2.03 grams. Very fine; flan chipped. Rare.
443-450 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: D N THEODOSI-VS P F AVG legend with diademed, helmetted and cuirassed three-quarter facing bust holding over shoulder and decorated shield. Rev: IMP XXXII COS XVII P P legend with Constantinopolis enthroned left, foot on prow, shield at side, holding globus cruciger and long sceptre; star in left field, mintmark COM OB in exergue. RIC 293; Sear 21140. 4.47 grams. Ex CNG Triton XVI, lot 1219 (with lot ticket, catalogue extract and invoice, $1075"). Good extremely fine.
430-440 AD. Thessalonica mint. Obv: D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG legend with diademed, helmetted and cuirassed three-quarter facing bust holding spear over shoulder and decorated shield. Rev: VOT XXX MVLT XXXX legend with Constantinopolis enthroned left holding globus cruciger and sceptre, shield at side, foot on prow; star in right field, mintmark TES OB in exergue. RIC 366; Sear 21159. 4.40 grams. Ex Spink, sale 1311 lot 1141 (with envelope and invoice, 120"). Extremely fine; much lustre.
491-518 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: D N ANASTA-SIVS P P AVG legend with helmetted and cuirassed bust, facing three-quarters to right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman spearing a fallen enemy. Rev: VICTORI-A AVGGG legend and officina letter I with Victory standing left, holding staff surmounted by reversed P and star in left field; mintmark CONOB in exergue. DOC I 7e; MIB 7; Sear 5. 4.21 grams. Near extremely fine; small scrape to reverse.
518-527 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: DN IVSTI-NVS PP AVG legend with helmetted and cuirassed bust facing three-quarters to right, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman spearing a fallen enemy. Rev: VICTORIA AVGGG legend and officina letter A with Victory standing left, holding long jewelled cross surmounted by reversed P; star in left field, mintmark CONOB in exergue. DOC I 1b; MIB 2; Paris 2; Sear 55. 4.18 grams. Good very fine; small graffito cross to obverse field.
527-565 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVI legend with pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM legend with Victory standing right, holding wreath and cross on globe; star to right; mintmark CONOB in exergue; with old dealer ticket. Sear 145; DOC 19; BMC 22-24. 1.48 grams. With old dealer ticket. Very fine.
1195-1203 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: IC-XC to left and right of bust of Christ facing, right hand raised, holding scroll in left. Rev: ALEZIOC DECP O KWNTANTI (or similar) legend with Alexius, crowned, wearing loros and divitision, on left, holding labarum, and St. Constantine, nimbate, bearded, wearing loros and divitision, on right, holding labarum and holding cross on globe between them. SB 2011 BMC 15; DOC 3a. 4.16 grams. Near as struck.
7th century AD. Copied crudely from a Roman solidus. Obv: profile bust left with [ ]PIICMCV pseudo legend. Rev: 'emperor' standing right being crowned by Victory before with CUNCAES[ ]C[ ]S pseudo legend having some letters retrograde; uncertain 'mintmark' letters in exergue. 4.12 grams. Ex M. D. O'Hara 1978; previously with Coins and Antiquities, 1970. [No Reserve] Very fine for type.
1035-1040 AD. Hiberno-Norse imitative series. Obv: profile bust with sceptre and +HARO LREX aberrant legend. Rev: long voided cross and lis dividing fully retrograde +PV LFR ICO NLV legend for a moneyer Wulfric at London mint. S.-; N.- (but see S. 1164; N. 804; BMC type V for prototype"). 0.82 grams. The moneyer Wulfric is not recorded for London among the more than 1100 coins of Harold I listed by H. A. Parsons in The Coins of Harold I, (BNJ 15 1919), in the volumes of Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles or in the Early Medieval Corpus and has not apparently been recorded previously; the reverse legend being fully retrograde strongly suggests that this is a contemporary imitation of Hiberno-Norse or Viking, possibly Danish, origin. Harold was an illegitimate son of Cnut and regent to Harthacnut and gained the throne when Harthacnut could not travel to England due to problems in Denmark. Extremely fine. Excessively rare as an imitative issue; possibly unique for these dies.
979-985 AD. BMC type iid. Obv: profile bust right with sceptre before and +ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLOR legend. Rev: first hand dividing ? - ? with contraction lines above and +BOIA M-O CÆNTPAR legend for the moneyer Boga at Canterbury mint. S. 1146; N. 768. 1.34 grams. Very fine; edges a little ragged.
1062-1065 AD. BMC type i/type iv mule. Obv: profile bust left with sceptre before and +ÆDPARDRD REX. error legend. Rev: small cross with +ASFERÐONL.INCO legend with pellet above L for the moneyer Asferth (or Osferth) at Lincoln mint. S. 1171/1173 mule; N. 816/813 mule; Mossop 27 and SCBI 18 (Copenhagen IV) 929 (same dies); see Seaby, Peter, The Sequence of Anglo-Saxon Coin Types, 1030-50 BNJ XXVIII, 1958 p.136 and pl.VII, 8 (same dies, ex Locket, lot 745"). See Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference LIN-B9250E (this coin); see Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (forthcoming, this coin"). 0.95 grams. Found near Ormsby, Lincolnshire, UK, 2017. The obverse die is unusual in repeating the last two letters of the king's name and this die is shared with two other coins recorded for this moneyer but reading OSFERÐ; mules, being coins struck from obverse and reverse dies that were not intended to be used together, are rare and have proved important in numismatics as they often help in determining chronology of types. Near extremely fine, about as struck; small spilt at flan edge. Extremely rare.
1413-1422 AD. Class C. Obv: facing bust within tressure with mullet on shoulder with +HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGLIE Z FRANC legend. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM and CIVITAS LONDON legends for London mint. S. 1765; N. 1387. 3.56 grams. With collector ticket. Good fine.
Dated MDL (1550) AD. Second period type, copied from bust 5? Obv: profile bust right with [E]DWAR[D VI D]G AGL FRANCO[R] REX legend and 'Y'? mintmark for Southwark? mint; with some letters of undertype visible. Rev: cross moline over arms with initials N and R at sides (should be E R for Edwardus Rex) with [TI]GO[R] DMINI.[OI?]TITVDINEM.D.L (or X) legend; undertype visible at centre of a short voided cross with lis ends and lettering clearly showing through (rotated at 45 degrees to shilling die strike, see image"). Type as S. 2466; N. 1918/2. 5.18 grams. The lis ended voided cross (sometimes floriate cross) is a reverse type device most often associated with the coins of France during this period; it is most likely that the Edward VI shilling dies are those of a skilled contemporary forger (brass forgeries are well known in Ireland and other forgeries exist) as the incorrect initial N for E to the left side of the reverse arms is not known for any official die; Joe Bispham in his detailed study of the debased issues The Base Shillings of Edward VI, (BNJ 55 1985 pages 134-140 and 3 plates) does not make any reference to overstrikes. Fine for period and issue; striking split to flan edge. Unique and fascinating; further research needed and potentially worthy of publication.
Dated 1644 AD. Obv: profile bust with IIII behind and date before CAROLVS D G M B F ET H REX legend with 'rose' mintmark. Rev: arms with CHRISTO AVSPICE REGNO legend. S. 3088; N. 2579; SCBI 33 (Brooker) 1071 (same dies"). 1.54 grams. Good very fine for issue; striking split to flan edge, excellent bust. Rare.
Dated 1658 AD. Thomas Simon, gilt both sides, with mount marks at edge. Obv: profile bust with OLIVAR D G RP ANG SCO HIB &c PRO legend. Rev: crowned aerms with PAX QVÆRITVR BELLO legend and date. S. 3228; ESC 6th 254 (old 1005"). 5.28 grams. Possibly gilded in an attempt to make it pass for the gold broad (20 shillings and only struck as 1656) of a similar size and design. Near very fine. Scarce.
Dated 1697 AD. Third bust. Obv: profile bust with GVLIELMVS III DEI GRA legend with broken E punch to DEI (appearing as inverted, reversed F"). Rev: cruciform shields with date and MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX legend. S. 3538; ESC 6th 1238 (old 1567"). 3.03 grams. Very fine. Very rare; the broken E punch not listed.
Dated 1764 AD. Early coinages, second head. Obv: profile bust with GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: crowned arms with M B F ET H REX F D B ET L D S R I A T ET E legend and date above. S. 3732. See Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference PAS ESS-9FF088 (this coin"). 4.15 grams. Found Wormingford, Essex, UK, 2016. Fine; obverse from damaged die, scuffed.
Dated 1763 AD. Obv: profile bust with GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: cruciform shields with M B F ET H REX D B ET L D S R I A T ET E legend and date; held in CGS slab. S. 3742; ESC 6th 2124 (old 1214"). 33.93 grams with capsule. Known as the Northumberland shilling as the Earl of Northumberland had them struck and distributed 100 of them (= 2000 coins) in Dublin on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant. CGS EF 65 (= good extremely fine), light steel tone. Scarce; a key coin in the shilling series.
Dated 1862 AD. Gothic issue. Obv: profile bust with Gotthic 'Victoria d g brit reg f d mdccclxii' legend. Rev: cruciform arms with emblems in angles with Gothic 'One florin one tenth of a pound' legend. S. 3891; ESC 6th 2847 (old 820); BSC 737. 10.37 grams. Good fine; some marks and knocks. Very rare.
Dated 1893 AD. Old head. Obv: profile bust with VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP legend. Rev: St George and dragon with date below. Edge: raised DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI LVI inscription. S. 3937; ESC 6th 2593 (old 303); BSC 501. 28.12 grams. Almost uncirculated; slight cabinet friction to highest parts, light gold tone.
Dated 1902 AD. Obv: profile bust with EDWARDVS VII DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX FID DEF IND IMP legend. Rev: St George and dragon with date below. Edge: raised DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI ii inscription. S. 3978; ESC 6th 3560 (old 361); BSC 1500. 28.14 grams. Extremely fine; lightly toned, some lustre.
Dated 1935 AD. Silver jubilee issue. Obvs: profile bust with GEORGIVS V DG BRITT OMN REX FD IND IMP legend. Revs: St George and dragon with CROWN legend and date. Edges: incuse DECVS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI XXV legend; one with parts of ANNO and REGNO repeated, struck beneath TUTA and REGNI respectively. S. 4088; ESC 6th 3652 (old 375); BSC 1650. 28.13 28.29 grams. To one of these examples, the incuse edge legend has been partially repeated with the letters NNO of ANNO impressed before and under the TUT of TUTAMEN and the letters RREE of REGNI (presumably, but doubled and not RERE as might be expected) appearing between the I of REGNI and the XXV regnal year date; a most unusual feature. Near extremely fine (error coin) and good very fine. The error edge extremely rare.
4th-early 3rd century BC. A ceramic pyxis with convex flange and separate lid; the cover with central high relief bust of Aphrodite (Venus), the goddess of love, surrounded by ivy leaves in applied white and radiating strokes on the flange; goddess with a stephane (bridal crown) and a veil falling over the left shoulder; small Eros appearing from behind her shoulder; the spool-form bottom with a wide flange tapering to a small foot. 499 grams total, 16cm (6 1/4"). Fine condition, loss to side of lid.Property of a Swiss collector; acquired Hirsch Auktionen, Munich, Germany, September 2012 lot 691; previously in an old private German collection, Munich; acquired in the mid 1980s.Pyxides belonged to the domestic realm of women and were designed to hold precious cosmetics and/or items such as jewellery. The reference to Aphrodite and Eros symbolising eternal love may have also fitted the vessel as a votive grave offering to be used in the afterlife as well. Aphrodite (Venus) is identified by her bare right bosom.
2nd-3rd century AD.A marble bust of Apollo, with soft, youthful features, hair in series of long locks swept back and held in place by a fillet; mounted on a custom-made stand. [A video of this lot is available on the TimeLine Auctions website] 10.41 kg total, 36cm including stand (14 1/4"). Fine condition.From an old British private collection; formed between 1975 and 1985.In Greek mythology Apollo was the son of Zeus (Roman Jupiter) and Leto, daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe; his twin sister was Artemis (Roman Diana"). His cult influenced that of the Etruscan Apulu; as a quintessentially Greek god, Apollo had no direct Roman equivalent. He has been variously recognised as a god of music, healing, the sun and light, plague and poetry, but is most well known as an oracular god, being the patron of the Delphic oracle. There was a tradition that the Delphic oracle was consulted as early as the period of the kings of Rome during the reign of Tarquinius Superbus in the sixth century BC. On the occasion of a pestilence in the fifth century BC, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the Apollinare. During the Second Punic War in 212 BC, the Ludi Apollinares (Apollonian Games) were instituted in his honour, on the instructions of a prophecy. In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome. After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour. He also erected a new temple to the god on the Palatine hill close to his own home. Sacrifices and prayers on the Palatine to Apollo and Diana formed the culmination of the Secular Games, held in 17 BC to celebrate the dawn of the new Augustan era and the establishment of the principate.
3rd-1st century BC. A bronze oval stud with profile bust of Eleutheria, goddess of liberty, wearing a diadem with wings to the side, hair falling to shoulders, wearing pendant earring and necklace. 1.95 grams, 18mm (1/2"). Fine condition.Property of a Middlesex gentleman; acquired in the 1980s. [No Reserve]
3rd-1st century BC. A bronze ring with tapering round section shank flattening at the shoulders; oval bezel deeply engraved with the bust of an elderly, bearded philosopher. 8 grams, 22.45mm overall, 18.33mm internal diameter (approximate ring size British Q, USA 8 Europe 17.49 Japan 17) (1"). A large wearable size.From a home counties collection; formed 1970-1980. Fine condition.
3rd-4th century AD. A keeled D-section gold hoop with flat angled shoulders, scaphoid bezel with inset red jasper cloison, intaglio female profile bust with diadem to the brow. See Oman, C.C. Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of Rings, reprinted Ipswich, 1993 item 188 for type. 5.29 grams, 25mm overall, 22.0mm internal diameter (approximate size British Z, USA 12 1/2 Europe 29.12 Japan 28) (1"). Extremely fine condition. A large wearable size. Property of a North West London gentleman; previously acquired on the UK art market between 1978-1980.
1st century AD. A substantial gold ring with the hoop in the form of two dolphins, the mouths supporting the cup-shaped bezel set with a banded agate engraved with the bust of Germanicus. 17.34 grams, 28.97mm overall, 20.59mm internal diameter (approximate ring size British V 1/2 USA 10 3/4 Europe 24.40 Japan 24) (1 1/4"). Extremely fine condition. A large wearable size. From an important London collection, acquired in the 1990s. Accompanied by a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Germanicus was a great military commander and favourite of the Roman people, and seems to have been groomed by Augustus to be his heir to the Imperial throne. He came from a prestigious background being the son of Drusus the Elder and Antonia, the grandson of Marc Antony and Octavia (sister of Augustus), as well as brother of the emperor Claudius and father to Caligula. During a campaign in Germany he managed to recover two of the three legionary standards lost at the Teutoburg forest, and buried the remains of the massacred soldiers. During the reign of Tiberius he was sent to the east with special powers to settle the various problems in the provinces. There he fell into conflict with Gnaeus Piso, the new governor of Syria, and overstepped his authority by visiting Egypt without Imperial permission. When Germanicus fell ill and died at Antioch in 19 AD it was thought that Piso had poisoned him. Piso was tried for murder and forced to commit suicide, but there were suspicions that he had been acting on Tiberius's orders. Germanicus became a popular hero and a focus for all those discontented with Tiberius's rule.
3rd-4th century AD. A gold ring with round section hoop, the bezel with a collar supporting a projecting cup with line to the rim; set with an extremely rare chrome chalcedony engraved with the bust of Serapis with bushy beard and modius crown to the top of the head. See Lüle, Çigdem, Non-destructive Gemmological Tests for the Identification of Ancient Gems, in Gems of Heaven, British Museum Research Publication 177 2012 pp.1-3 for information on chrome chalcedony and its use in ancient times. 7.53 grams, 23.78mm overall, 19.88mm internal diameter (approximate ring size British U, USA 10 Europe 22.33 Japan 22) (1"). Very fine condition. A large wearable size. Stone of an extremely rare material. UK art market, acquired prior to 2000. The extremely rare green variety of chalcedony coloured by chromium was only known to the ancients and the Romans, until circa 3rd century AD, when it disappears from history. It is only known from small worked pieces such as beads and intaglios. The source has been recently re-discovered as being from northern Turkey (Anatolia"). Serapis was a hybrid deity combining Egyptian and Greek elements and first appears in the Ptolemaic period. Although there is an account by the Roman historian Tacitus propounding that Serapis originally came from Asia Minor, the land of Egypt itself probably provided the elements for the god. He seems to have originated from the cult of Osarapis, the deified dead bull god that fused the both Osiris and Apis into one. The nature of Osarapis, involving the concepts of life after death and agricultural fecundity, seems to have attracted the early Ptolemies as being the quintessence of the myriad deities of Egypt, and as the aspects most easily fused with Greek gods. The Hellenistic elements in Serapis predominate in his nature and iconography and he has characteristics from Zeus, Dionysus, Aeculapius and Hades, which reflect his role as a sovereign with healing and the underworld; the Ptolemies essentially created a deity that would unite the native Egyptian population, as well as the Greek, and which reflected the multicultural and diverse nature of Alexandria and the Ptolemaic court.
1st century AD. A lead inlay with the profile bust of the Emperor Caesar Augustus, reigned 27 BC-14 AD, with detailed face and hair. 5.64 grams, 23mm (1"). Fine condition.Ex Steinberg collection; acquired London art market, 1960s-1970s; with old dealer's ticket.Walter Steinberg was a well-known figure at fairs, sales and events for many years. Born in 1922 in Philadelphia, Walter had a life-long passion for collecting. A long-time resident in London, he retired to New York and decided to pass on the antiquities and coins he had collected over his lifetime. Walter acquired coins and artefacts that interested him, so his collection, although containing many lovely examples, also contained many affordable specimens. Much of the material has been unavailable to the market for 30 to 50 years. Walter sadly passed away in 2015; he hoped that the items he collected would find new homes with the next generation of collectors.
1st century AD. A round-section gold hoop supporting a discoid bezel with inset carnelian intaglio female profile bust. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994 item 123. 7.41 grams, 24mm overall, 16.56x19.0mm internal diameter (approximate size British L 1/2 USA 6 Europe 12.0 Japan 11) (1"). Extremely fine condition From an important collection of a Mayfair gentleman, London, UK. Accompanied by a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Dr Bonewitz notes: 'The carnelian is of an unusually fine colour and clarity'. .
1st-2nd century AD. A D-section hollow gold hoop with flared shoulders, inset elliptical carnelian intaglio of a profile female bust with fillet to the brow. Cf. Chadour, A.B. Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994 item 146. 12 grams, 28mm overall, 15.88x17.81mm internal diameter (approximate size British J 1/2 USA 5 Europe 9.32 Japan 9) (1"). Very fine condition. A large wearable size. From an important collection of a Mayfair gentleman, London, UK. Accompanied by a positive X-Ray Fluorescence metal analysis certificate. Dr Bonewitz notes: 'The carnelian from which the intaglio is carved shows white patination in parts, evidence of its great antiquity'.
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