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Click here to subscribe991-997 AD. BMC type IIIa. Obv: profile bust and sceptre with +ÆÐELRÆD REX ANGLOR legend. Rev: short voided cross with C R V X in angles with +ÆLFGETM-OLVN legend for the moneyer Aelfget at Lodnon mint. 1.35 grams. Found Suffolk, UK. S. 1148; N. 770. Good fine; cracked at inner circle, Vikling peck marks both sides. [No Reserve]
50-54 AD. Antioch mint. Obv: NERWNOC KAICAROC GERMANIKOY legend with bare-headed, draped bust right. Rev: DIDRAXMON legend with priestly implements: simpulum and lituus. 7.37 grams. RPC 4171; Prieur 70; SNG Copenhagen 375 (Ephesos); BMC 209 (mint corrected); SNG Fitzwilliam 5863; Vienna 20054. Near very fine. [No Reserve]
602-610 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: dN FOCAS PERP AVG legend with draped and cuirassed facing bust, wearing crown with pendilia, holding cross on globe. Rev: VICTORIA AVGG legend and officina letter, angel standing facing, holding staff surmounted by christogram and cross on globe; mintmark CONOB in exergue. 3.85 grams. DOC II 1; MIB II 5; Sear 616. Good fine.
3rd-8th century AD. A mixed group comprising: a round-section bronze bracelet with snake-head finials; a silver plaque with low-relief profile female bust; two lead seal fragments, each with Greek text to one face. 20 grams total, 11-56mm (1/2 - 2 1/4"). Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Fair condition. [4, No Reserve]
164-202 AD. Group comprising: Lucius Verus, 164 AD, Mars; Septimius Severus, 196-197 AD, Providentia; 209 AD, Jupiter with the Severan children; 198-202 AD, Victory and Parthian captive and 201-202 AD, Severus standing. 16.72 grams total. RIC 516; Sear (1988"). 1540 (Sear 5355 variant; bust type)/RIC 92a; Sear -/RIC 226; Sear 6345/RIC 142a; Sear (1988), 1795/RIC 160; Sear 6282. Very fine. [5]
402-403 AD. Milan mint. Obv: DN ARCADIVS P F AVG legend with diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VICTORIA AVGGG legend with emperor standing, holding standard and Victory on globe, left foot on captive; M - D at sides, COM OB in exergue. 4.37 grams. RIC IX 1205; DOC 265-267; Sear 20724. Good very fine.
1295-1320 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: no legend, bust of Mary facing, both hands raised, within city walls with six groups of towers. Rev: IC-XC at upper left and right and a semi-garbled legend to left and right of Andronicus on the left and Michael on the right, kneeling to left and right of Christ, who crowns them. 2.75 grams. Sear 2396; Ashmolean 702-753. Very fine. Rare.
276-282 AD. Cyzicus mint. Obv: IMP CM AVR PROBVS PF AVG legend with radiate bust left wearing imperial mantle, holding eagle-tipped sceptre. Rev: SOLI INVICTO legend with Sol in spread quadriga facing; CM and mintmark XXIA below. 4.22 grams. RIC V-2 Cyzicus 911. Extremely fine; almost full silvering. [No Reserve]
527-538 AD. Constantinople mint. Obv: D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVG legend, helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding cross on globe and shield. Rev: VICTORI-A AVGGG and officina letter digamma, Victory standing facing, holding linear, P-headed cross and cross on globe; star in right field; mintmark CONOB in exergue. 4.51 grams. DOC 9; MIB 7; Sear 140. Very fine.
318-319 AD. Trier mint. Obv: IMP LICINIVS AVG legend with laureate and mantled bust left holding mappa, sceptre over shoulder. Rev: IOVI CONSERVATORI AVG legend with emperor standing left, holding thunderbolt and sceptre, on the back of an eagle standing right on waved line, left wing lowered; mintmark PTR in exergue. 2.45 grams. RIC VII Trier 211; Sear -. Fine. [No Reserve]
268-270 AD and 287-293 AD. Victorinus, Cologne mint. Obv: IMP C VICTORINVS PF AVG legend with radiate, draped bust right. Rev: PAX AVG legend with Pax standing left, holding olive-branch and sceptre; V and star across fields. Carausius, Camulodunum mint. Obv: IMP C CARAVSIVS P AVG legend with radiate, draped bust right. Rev: PAX AVG legend with Pax standing left, holding olive-branch and sceptre; S-P across fields, mintmark C in exergue. 3.16, 3.70 grams. RIC V-2 Cologne 118; Sear 11175/RIC V-2, Camulodunum 301. Good very fine and very fine.
221 AD. Rome mint. Obv: IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG legend with laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: PM TRP IIII COS III PP legend around, S-C across fields with emperor standing left by altar, holding patera and cypress branch resembling a club; star in upper left field. 11.82 grams. RIC 325; Sear 7611. See Wildwinds.com (this coin). Good very fine.
375-378 AD. Aquileia mint. Obv: DN GRATIANVS P F AVG legend with diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VRBS ROMA legend with Roma seated on cuirass left holding sceptre; with star right field, mintmark AQPS. in exergue. 2.05 grams. RIC ix, p.96, 15b; RSC 87f; Sear 19968. Extremely fine.
Dated 1593 AD. Sixth issue. Obv: profile bust with rose behind and ELIZAB D G ANG FR ET HIB REGI legend with 'tun' mintmark. Rev: long cross over arms with date above and POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV legend. 3.28 grams. Found Nottinghamshire, UK, 1990s-2000s. S. 2578C; N. 2015. See Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference DENO-A70919 (this coin). Good fine. [No Reserve]
1st-2nd century AD. A group of sheet silver repoussé plaques; one with standing figure of Jupiter, with naked upper torso, robes falling to feet; bust of Helios to the right; another with a male on galloping horse with suspension ring above and mounted on a modern leather backing. 28 grams total, 7.6-12.8cm (3 - 5"). The property of a German gentleman; acquired 1980s-early 1990s. Fair condition. [2, No Reserve]
18th-19th century AD. A group of bronze Roman style items consisting of; a roundel with the head of Medusa; an actor's mask with hair falling to the sides and smiling face; a bust of a female wearing brimmed hat and hair falling to shoulders. 244 grams total, 39-47mm (1 1/2 - 1 3/4"). Ex German collection; acquired 1980s. Fine condition. [3, No Reserve]
1271-1272 AD. Class 5g. Obv: facing bust with sceptre and HERICVS REX III legend. Rev: voided long cross and pellets with ROB ERT ONC CAN legend for the moneyer Robert at Canterbury mint. 1.46 grams. S. 1373; N. 997. Pennies of this series, especially those struck at Canterbury, are seen gilded as this example, most likely for use as a pilgrim token or badge, displaying the cross to the reverse; almost all of the Canterbury pieces, like this one, are on broad flans with the reverses well centred; some are on overweight flans such as those once suggested as being pattern half groats (but, following D. F. Allen, now designated as 'pieces de plaisir'). Very fine; double struck, gilding almost fully present. [No Reserve]
1st-4th century AD. A stone plaque with arched top and flat base; in the centre a wreath enclosing the image of Mithras wearing Phrygian cap, cloak billowing behind, kneeling on the back of a bull and plunging a dagger into its neck; to either side of Mithras' head the bust of Sol and Luna; to the left hand side of Mithras is Cautes holding a torch up, and to his right is Cautopates holding a torch down; below the bull a snake and scorpion, at the neck of the bull a dog; around the wreath a number of scenes relating to the myth of Mithras; traces of pigment. 6.24 kg, 25.5 x 30cm (9 3/4 x 12"). Property of a Finchley, London, UK gentleman; acquired from a sale in Denham, Oxfordshire, UK, in 2014. Cf. Clauss, M. The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and his Mysteries, London, 2001. Mithras had his origins in ancient Persia and was adopted by the Romans who developed a mystery cult around him based on salvation and the revealing of secrets. The cult was only open to men and was extremely popular with soldiers, with the majority of his shrines being associated with military sites, such as along Hadrians Wall. Worshippers of Mithras had a complex system of seven grades of initiation through which the initiates moved. Initiates called themselves syndexioi, those united by the handshake which is based on the pact between Mithras and Sol. They met in underground temples, called Mithraea, which survive in large numbers; these were small buildings that imitated the cave in which Mithras slew the cosmic bull and where the members celebrated the rites of the god and shared a sacred communal meal. The majority of the information that we have about Mithraism comes from the reliefs, and other images, that have been found in the shrines. In every Mithraeum the centrepiece was a representation of Mithras killing a sacred cosmic bull, called the tauroctony, that was housed in a screen at the apse of the shrine; the tauroctony scene could also have other narrative images relating to the myth of the god. Mithras is shown wearing Persian clothes, such as a baggy tunic and trousers and wearing a Phrygian cap, and kneeling on the exhausted bull, holding it by the nostrils with his left hand, and stabbing it with his right. As he does so, he looks over his shoulder towards the figure of Sol. A dog and a snake reach up towards the blood that pours from the neck; a scorpion seizes the bull's genitals. A raven, the messenger of Sol, is flying around, or is sitting, on the bull. Three ears of wheat are seen coming out from the bull's tail, sometimes from the wound. The god is sitting on the bull in an unnatural way with his right leg constraining the bull's hoof and the left leg is bent and resting on the bull's back or flank. The two torch-bearers are on either side, dressed like Mithras, Cautes with his torch pointing up and Cautopates with his torch pointing down. The event takes place in a cavern, into which Mithras has carried the bull, after having hunted it, ridden it and overwhelmed its strength. Sometimes the cavern is surrounded by a circle, on which the twelve signs of the zodiac appear. Outside the cavern, top left, is Sol the sun, with his flaming crown, often driving a quadriga or depicted as a bust. A ray of light often reaches down to touch Mithras. At the top right is Luna, with her crescent moon, who may be depicted driving a biga, or again, as a bust. In some depictions, the central tauroctony is framed by a series of subsidiary scenes to the left, top and right, illustrating events in the Mithras narrative; Mithras being born from the rock, the water miracle, the hunting and riding of the bull, meeting Sol who kneels to him, shaking hands with Sol and sharing a meal with him, and ascending to the heavens in a chariot. The interpretation of the images is problematical due to the secrecy of the cult and the lack of literature relating to it. The slaying of the cosmic bull clearly has a beneficial role for mankind due to the life giving blood that is shed and the ears of corn that grow from the bull's tail. Some reliefs have been found with the paint surviving and show the inside of the cloak of Mithras decorated with stars, such as that from Marino, Italy . This, and the presence of the encircling zodiac signs, has been interpreted as relating to specific points in the year that were celebrated as key festivals and were depicted in a cryptic manner. Another theory is that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Graeco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way and interpreted as the existence of a powerful new god capable of shifting the cosmic spheres and thereby controlling the universe. Fine condition. Rare.
9th-12th century AD. A mixed group of lead disc seals comprising: two with obverse nimbate bust, text to the reverse; one with obverse standing saint within a raised border, text to the reverse. 42 grams total, 24-34mm (1 - 1 1/2"). Property of a Leeds, UK collector; acquired by inheritance. Fine condition, usage wear. [3, No Reserve]
4th-1st century BC. A ceramic bust of a female, possibly the goddess Persephone, in an archaistic style with rows of curls to the hair, tunic with wavy lines and mantle over the shoulder; with white slip over; mounted on a custom-made stand. 925 grams, 20cm (8"). Fine condition. Ex Kinnard collection, Oxford, UK, formed in the early 1980s; thence by decent 2015.
15th century AD. A lead pilgrim badge of St. Thomas Beckett comprising a facing bust with pelleted mitre and locks of hair, ovoid face with lentoid eyes, pelleted mantle to the shoulders; fragment of a flanking angel and frame; in perspex collector's case. 58 grams, 74mm including case, badge: 67mm (3"). Found Lincolnshire, UK. Cf. Spencer, B. Pilgrim Souvenirs and Secular Badges, Woodbridge, 2010, item 76a. Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme with reference number LIN-D80A35; accompanied by a print out of the PAS report. Thomas Beckett was born in around 1120, the son of a prosperous London merchant. He was well educated and quickly became an agent to Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, who sent him on several missions to Rome. Beckett's talents were noticed by Henry II, who made him his chancellor and the two became close friends. When Theobald died in 1161, Henry made Beckett archbishop. Hetransformed himself from a pleasure-loving courtier into a serious, simply-dressed cleric. The king and his archbishop's friendship was put under strain when it became clear that Becket would now stand up for the church in its disagreements with the king. In 1164, realising the extent of Henry's displeasure, Beckett fled into exile in France, and remained in exile for several years. He returned in 1170. On the 29 December 1170, four knights, believing the king wanted Beckett out of the way, confronted and murdered him in Canterbury Cathedral. Beckett was canonised in 1173 and his shrine in Canterbury Cathedral became an important focus for pilgrimage. Fine condition. [No Reserve]
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