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Click here to subscribeRoman Eugenius - Roma Siliqua392-395 AD, Trier mint. Obv: DN EVGENI-VS PF AVG legend with pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: VIRTVS RO-MANORVM legend with Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and inverted spear; mintmark TRPS below. 1.48 grams. Sear 4216; RIC IX Trier 106d; RSC 14a. Very fine. Scarce.Starting Price: £300
Roman Honorius - Contemporary Plated Solidus402-403 AD or later, Constantinople mint. Obv: D N HONORIVS P F AVG legend with helmeted, pearl-diademed, laureate, cuirassed bust facing three-quarters right, holding spear across shoulder and shield decorated with horseman spearing enemy. Rev: CONCORDIA AVGGG legend and officina letter Z, Constantinopolis sitting facing, head right, foot on prow, holding sceptre and wreath-bearing Victory on globe, chi-rho (instead of star) in left field; mintmark CONOB in exergue. 3.01 grams. Imitative of Sear 4242; RIC X 24/201; Cohen 3. [No Reserve] Fine, with most gilding remaining. Rare and interesting.Starting Price: £5
Roman Marcian - Gold Victory Solidus450-457 AD, Constantinople mint. Obv: DN MARCIA-NVS P F AVG legend with diademed, helmeted and cuirassed three-quarter facing bust, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman. Rev: VICTORIA AVGGG legend and officina A, Victory standing left, holding long jewelled cross, star in right field, mintmark CONOB in exergue. 4.17 grams. Sear 4322; RIC X 510. Very fine.Starting Price: £330
Roman Zeno - Gold Victory Solidus476-491 AD, Constantinople mint, second reign. Obv: DN ZENO-PERP AVG legend with helmeted and cuirassed bust three-quarter facing bust, holding spear over right shoulder and shield on left arm. Rev: VICTORI-A AVGGG legend and officina letter H, Victory standing left, holding long jewelled cross, star in right field; mintmark CONOB. 4.48 grams. Sear 4385; RIC 910. Good very fine.Starting Price: £330
Byzantine Anastasius - Gold Victory Solidus491-518 AD, Constantinople mint. Obv: DN ANASTA-SIVS PP AVG legend with helmeted and cuirassed bust three-quarter face to right, holding spear over right shoulder and shield on left arm. Rev: VICTORI-A AVGGG legend and officina letter Z, Victory standing left, holding long jewelled cross, star in right field; mintmark CONOB in exergue. 4.37 grams. Sear 3; DO C3-5; MIB 3-5. Extremely fine.Starting Price: £330
Byzantine Maurice Tiberius - Gold Angel Solidus583-601 AD, Constantinople mint. Obv: D N MAVRC TIb PP AVI legend with cuirassed bust facing wearing plumed helmet, holding cross on globe. Rev: VICTORI-A AVGG legend and officina letter Z, angel standing facing, holding long, P-headed cross and cross on globe; mintmark CONOB below. 4.25 grams. Sear 478; DOC I 5a. Slightly weak strike, otherwise extremely fine.Starting Price: £200
Byzantine Constans II - Gold Cross on Steps Solidus641 AD, Constantinople mint. Obv: DN CONSTANTINUS PP AV legend with bust facing with long beard and moustache, wearing crown surmounted by cross, and chlamys, holding cross on globe. Rev: VICTORIA AVGU legend and officina letter S, cross potent on three steps; mintmark CONOB in exergue. 4.46 grams. Sear 956. Extremely fine, slight weakness to reverse.Starting Price: £300
Saxon Merovingian Francia - Quentovic - Pale Gold Tremissis500-675 AD, Quentovic mint. Obv: profile bust with +VVICCOFIT legend. Rev: cross on steps with ANGLOMONET legend. 1.22 grams. Prou 1128-1133. Found Norfolk, UK. Extremely fine reverse, struck with a slightly worn obverse die.Starting Price: £600
Anglo-Saxon British Copy of Merovingian Quentovic Tremissis500-675 AD. Obv: profile bust with obscure legend around. Rev: cross on steps with pellet in each quarter with traces of DVTTAMONET legend around. 0.91 grams. Prou -; See EMC 2012.0269 (this coin). Found Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK. This appears to be a British Anglo-Saxon copy of the well-known Quentovic type, almost certainly produced in England. Very fine. Very rare and interesting.Starting Price: £200
Anglo-Saxon Monita Scorum - Sceatta710-760 AD. Obv: diademed and draped profile bust right with MONITA SCORVM legend within beaded border. Rev: porcupine figure (degraded bust) within zig-zag and beaded border. 1.13 grams. S. 824; N. -; See EMC 2012.0236 (this coin); see Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas, volume 3, pages 435-436 for discussion of the type and figures. Found Tiptree, Essex, 2010; recorded with the Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It is suggested by Marian Archibald that the obverse legend is an abbreviation for MONITA S(an)C(t)ORVM and that this type has affinities with Series Q and T; the bust has obvious similarities to those seen on late Roman types with most findspots recorded from eastern England; this example lacks the cross usually seen at the end of the legend so would appear top be a previously unrecorded variant and the composition by XRF analysis is 97% silver, 1% gold, 1% copper, 1.5% iron. Good extremely fine, slightly off-centre strike. Very rare type; the absence of a cross at the end of the obverse legend for this type apparently not previously recorded.Starting Price: £1000
Anglo-Saxon Coenwulf - London / Ceolbald - Portrait Penny810-821 AD, London, large flan. Obv: profile bust right wth +COENVVLF REX M legend with Mercian `m`. Rev: cross crosslet with CEOCBEALD legend for the moneyer Ceolbald. 1.30 grams. S. 918; N. 345; see Naismith L19.1 (dies not listed). The dies apparently unrecorded (not listed in Naismith, EMC, SCBI). Very fine with slightly ragged edge at top. Very rare.Starting Price: £1000
Anglo-Saxon Burgred - Cunhelm - Lunette Penny852-874 AD, type c. Obv: profile bust with +BVRGRED REX legend. Rev: lunettes broken at angles, the bases with pellets within hooked ends with CVNEHEL legend for the moneyer Cunhelm with MON above and ETA below, a trefoil of pellets before ETA. 1.05 grams. S. 940; N. 425. Very fine, small flaw hole by rim at 7 o`clock, toned.Starting Price: £200
Anglo-Saxon Aethelred II - Canterbury / Leofstan - CRVX Penny991-997 AD, BMC type iiia. Obv: profile bust with sceptre and +AEDELRED REX ANGLOR legend. Rev: short voided cross with C R V X in angles and +LEOFSTANM-OCAET legend for the moneyer Leofstan at Canterbury mint. 1.58 grams. S. 1148; N. 770. Very fine.Starting Price: £180
Anglo-Saxon Cnut - Thetford / Ealdred - Quatrefoil Penny1016-1035 AD, BMC Type viii. Obv: profile bust within quatrefoil with +CNVT REX ANGLOR legend. Rev: long voided cross over quatrefoil with +EA LDR EDM ODEO legend for the moneyer Ealdred at Thetford mint. 1.10 grams. S. 1157; N. 781. Good very fine, near as struck.Starting Price: £180
Norman William I - London / Sibode - Canopy Penny1070-1072 AD, BMC type iii. Obv: facing bust within canopy with +PILLEMVS REX legend. Rev: double quadrilateral with fleury at angles and annulet to centre with +SIBODEONLIINDEN legend for the moneyer Sibode at London mint. 1.10 grams. S. 1251; N. 843. Extremely fine, slight doubling in reverse legend. Rare thus.Starting Price: £800
Norman Friesland - Ecgbert II - Dokkum - Pfennig1068-1077 AD. Obv: facing bust under canopy with +ECBERTVS legend. Rev: two facing busts of Judas and Simon with cross above and +DOGGINGVN legend for Dokkum mint. 0.49 grams. Danneberg 528; see EMC 2012.0257 (this coin). Found near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire; recorded in Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. [No Reserve] Very fine for issue. Scarce.Starting Price: £5
Norman Henry I - Salisbury / Sawulf - Pointing Bust and Stars Cut HalfpennyCirca 1107 AD, BMC type vi. Obv: crowned bust three quarters right with sceptre and three stars in field with +HEN[RIC REX] legend. Rev: cross pattee over saltire with annulets at the end of each limb and star in angles with +SAP[ ]SAL legend for the moneyer Sawulf at Salisbury mint. 0.62 grams. S. 1267; N. 862; see EMC 2008.0412 (this coin). Found Stowmarket, Suffolk, 2008; recorded in Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The three stars that are depicted are said to represent comets associated with Norman victories. Extremely fine. The moneyer apparently unrecorded for Salisbury.Starting Price: £400
English Medieval Edward III - London - Pre Treaty Groat1351-1352, series C. Obv: facing bust in tressure with +EDWARD DEI G REX ANGL Z FRANC D HYB legend. Rev: long cross and pellets with POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEV and LONDON CIVITAS legends for London mint. 4.33 grams. S. 1565; N. 1147. [No Reserve] Near very fine, slightly off centre strike.Starting Price: £5
Tudor Elizabeth I 1594 Sixpence and Henry III Penny [2]Dated 1594. Obv: profile bust with rose behind and ELIZAB D G ANG FR ET HIB REGI legend and `woolsack` mintmark. Rev: long cross over arms with date above and POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV legend; with a Henry III long cross penny, class 5c by the moneyer Walter at Canterbury mint. 2.96, 1.42 grams. S. 2577/1369; N. 2015/993. [2, No Reserve] Near very fine and fine.Starting Price: £5
Irish James II - March 1690 Civil War - Gun Money Large HalfcrownDated March 1690. Obv: profile bust with IACOBVS II DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: crown over sceptres dividing I-R with date and mark of value XXX above and month below (Mar.) with MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX legend. 12.91 grams. S. 6579L. [No Reserve] Very fine, near as struck.Starting Price: £5
Irish James II - October 1690 Civil War - Gun Money Large HalfcrownDated October 1689. Obv: profile bust with IACOBVS II DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: crown over sceptres dividing I-R with date and mark of value XXX above and month below (Oct:) with MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX legend. 14.22 grams. S. 6579E. [No Reserve] Very fine, near as struck.Starting Price: £5
Irish James II - September 1689 Civil War - Gun Money Large HalfcrownDated September 1689. Obv: profile bust with IACOBVS II DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: crown over sceptres dividing I-R with date and mark of value XXX above and month below (Sepr:) with MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX legend. 14.24 grams. S. 6579D. [No Reserve] Very fine, near as struck.Starting Price: £5
Irish James II - January 1689 Civil War - Gun Money Large ShillingDated January 1689. Obv: profile bust with IACOBVS II DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: crown over sceptres dividing I-R with date and mark of value XII above and month below (Jan:) with MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX legend. 6.08 grams. S. 6581M. [No Reserve] Very fine.Starting Price: £5
Irish James II - August 1689 Civil War - Gun Money Large ShillingDated August 1689. Obv: profile bust with IACOBVS II DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: crown over sceptres dividing I-R with date and mark of value XII above and month below (Aug.) with MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX legend. 5.82 grams. S. 6581C. [No Reserve] Very fine.Starting Price: £5
Irish James II - August 1690 Civil War - Gun Money SixpenceDated August 1689. Obv: profile bust with IACOBVS II DEI GRATIA legend. Rev: crown over sceptres dividing I-R with date and mark of value VI above and month below (Aug) with MAG BR FRA ET HIB REX legend. 3.80 grams. S. 6583C. [No Reserve] Good fine.Starting Price: £5
World Netherlands - 1576 - Lion Daalder (48 Stuivers)Dated 1576 AD. Obv: armoured bust of William the Silent above shield with rampant lion with date below and MO NO ARG ORDIN HOL legend. Rev: rampant lion with CONFIDENS DNO NON MOVETVR legend. 27.22 grams. D. 8838. [No Reserve] Near very fine for issue. Scarce.Starting Price: £5
World India - `Welsh Pioneers Baghdad 1917` - Engraved Victoria RupeeDated 1917, World War I. Obv: profile bust with VICTORIA EMPRESS legend, two loops soldered to surface. Rev: smoothed and neatly engraved with C E above BAGHDAD 1917 at centre with Persian script and WELSH PIONEERS legend. 10.96 grams. This `trench art` badge commemorates the taking of Baghdad in March 1917, in which the Welsh Pioneers took part..[No Reserve] Coin fine, engraving fresh.Starting Price: £5
Medallion Victoria - 1897 - Diamond Jubilee - Silver MedallionDated 1897. Obv: profile old bust with VICTORIA ANNVM REGNI SEXAGESIMVM FELICITER CLAVDIT IVN MDCCCXCVII legend. Rev: profile young bust dividing LONGITVDO DIERVM IN DEXTERAEIVS ET IN SINISTRA GLORIA legend with 1837 below. 9.56 grams, 26 mm. (1"). BCM 1817b; BHM 3506. [No Reserve] Extremely fine, dark tone. The Royal Mint issue.Starting Price: £5
Roman Gold Repousse Figural Pendant1st-3rd century AD. A sheet gold piriform pendant formed as a repousse male bust, clean shaven with short hair, integral suspension loop above and inserted backplate. 1.90 grams, 37 mm (1 1/2"). UK art market, acquired prior to 1980. Fine condition.Starting Price: £300
Roman Gold Ring with Wreathed Bust Intaglio1st-3rd century AD. A fabricated gold finger ring formed with a herringbone-pattern hoop of twisted bands; the bezel elliptical with filigree border containing a black glass intaglio carved with with a wreathed bust in profile in a cloison setting. 3.87 grams, 18 mm overall, 14.77 mm internal diameter (approximate size British H, USA 3 3/4, Europe 6.18, Japan 6) (3/4"). UK art market, acquired prior to 1980. Fine condition.Starting Price: £650
Roman Bronze Bust of Minerva1st-2nd century AD. A cast bust of Minerva with helmet pushed to the crown of the head, finely modelled face and slender neck, folded cloak to the left shoulder; eyes moulded hollow for separate inserts, not present. 108 grams, 52 mm (2"). Property of a London collector, acquired before 1980. Fine condition, cut from a larger figure.Starting Price: £400
Roman Bronze Military Knife Finial2nd-3rd century AD. A cast finial formed as a tubular body surmounted by a male bust in a helmet (probably Imperial Gallic Type H of the 2nd century AD) with a central piercing into the socket and transverse securing rivet-hole to the front. 13 grams, 38 mm (1 1/2"). Ex Penfold collection, acquired 1970s-1980s. Fine condition.Starting Price: £96
Roman Shell Cameo with Bust of a Woman2nd-3rd century AD. A delicate cameo depicting in relief the head and shoulders of a female, facing to the right, her hair elaborately swept back, drapery at the shoulders. 0.97 grams, 18 mm (3/4"). Property of a European Gentleman living in the UK; formerly in a private collection formed in the 1990s. [No Reserve] Fine condition, slight loss to one edge.Starting Price: £5
Roman Marble Bust of a Woman2nd-3rd century AD. The face and shoulders of a woman, shown in profile; the hair arranged in loose curls, falling to the shoulders; the face with deep-set eyes and impassive expression; the lower part uncarved, as if unfinished; mounted on custom-made stand. 630 grams, 14.5 cm including stand (5 1/2"). UK art market, acquired prior to 1980. Fine condition.Starting Price: £500
Roman Marble Imperial Bust Fragment2nd-3rd century AD. A very finely carved marble bust fragment depicting the face, neck and shoulders of an emperor; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 551 grams, 17 cm including stand (6 3/4"). Ex Maurice Braham collection, acquired 1980s. Fine condition.Starting Price: £650
Roman Stone Chariot Motif Intaglio1st-3rd century AD. An orange hardstone intaglio with chariot motif, offered with two possibly 19th century intaglios: one with bearded male bust, the other in white hardstone with female bust in profile. 7.8 grams, 13-14 mm (1/2"). Property of a London collector. [3, No Reserve] Fine condition.Starting Price: £5
Roman Ceramic Male Bust Oil Lamp1st-2nd century AD. A moulded oil lamp with rounded nozzle, triangular flange handle to the rear; the discus ornamented with a band of stamped chevrons and pellets surrounding a profile bust of a helmetted and cuirassed warrior; to the underside an annular band encircling a rectilinear maker`s mark. 164 grams, 13 cm (5"). From an old Warwickshire collection. [No Reserve] Fine condition.Starting Price: £5
Near Eastern Persian Stone Seal CollectionSassanian Empire, 224-651 AD. A group of twenty-five Sassanian pendant seals in various stones comprising: four with scorpion motif; two with bird motif; six with running animal; one with helmetted bust; two with winged gryphon; six with geometric figural motif; two with standing figure; one with starburst motif; one with fish motif. 141 grams total, 8-22 mm (1/4 - 3/4"). From an important London collection, acquired in the 1990s; cat.1999 (part). [25] Fine condition.Starting Price: £650
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Nummular BroochLate 9th century AD. A `nummular` or `coin` brooch, the face depicting a figural bust, draped, wearing a diadem; the bust surrounded by regular marks forming a pseudo-inscription; to the reverse, two small plates for attachment of pin remaining. 5.65 grams, 25 mm See Leahy, K in Cook, B. and Williams, G. (eds.) Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1200. Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald, (2006), p.267-85. Published Hammond, B. British Artefacts, volume 2 - Middle Saxon & Viking, Witham, 2010. Found Essex, UK, 2005. Fine condition. Rare.Starting Price: £125
Medieval Bronze `Alexander of Bergia` Seal Matrix14th century AD. A circular cast bronze seal matrix with raised suspension loop to reverse; the central design showing the crowned bust of the king holding a sceptre and with incuse SIGILLV ALEXANDRI DE BOVVERGIA inscription for Alexander of Bergia (Berja?). 7.49 grams, 24.25 mm (1"). See UKDFD Reference 35577 (this seal). Ex Miller collection; found Mawlsey, Northamptonshire, UK, 2012. The family name de Bergia survives in Spain to the present day and is linked to the city of Berja, Andalusia. This seal is typically English in form and style and was found in Northamptonshire but there is no apparent record of the de Bergia family in that area; the crowned bust is especially reminiscient of the coin busts of Edward I and his heirs, from 1279 AD. Very fine condition, giving an excellent impression.Starting Price: £200
Post Medieval Silver `Queen Anne Portrait` Seal MatrixEarly 18th century AD. A silver `chessman` shape seal matrix with octagonal back (with indistinct maker`s mark) tapering to cylindrical stem with two projecting bands terminating in a knop pierced for suspension; the oval seal face depicting a bust of Queen Anne with orb before. 6.76 grams, 23 mm tall (1"). From an old English collection. The bust of the Queen depicted on this seal is very similar to those seen on her coins and medals. Very fine condition. Rare.Starting Price: £180
*French Second Republic. A folding paper fan showing the provisional government of the French Second Republic, n.p., [1848], the leaf with eleven litho. bust portraits of Albert, Flocon, Cremieux, Arago, Lamartine, Dupont de l`Eure, Ledru-Rollin, C. Pages, Marie, Marrast, Louis Blanc, a few small pin holes, mounted on wooden sticks, small sticky residue on leading guardstick, 21.5cm (8.5ins). Schreiber Collection 134, p.29. (1)
*King George III. A fan leaf commemorating the Jubilee of King George III, Published as the Act directs, May 13th 1791, by A.P. Birman, an unmounted paper fan leaf, engraved in stipple (partly in colour) with etched arabesques, by W. Hincks, with a central cartouche depicting a bust of George III suspended by two putti, and allegorical figures of Fame, Commerce and Britannia, with a tripod inscribed `The Heart of the Nation`, against a ground of putti, birds, foliage, sphinx motifs, crowned canopies with George III`s monogram, and other designs, border of swags and birds, 50cm (19.5ins) wide, mounted, framed and glazed. Schreiber Collection 3, pp.65/66 (uncoloured, unmounted); 17, p.5 (uncoloured, mounted). (1)
Rome Diocletianus periodIntaglio on red jasper, mm 12x8x2. Form 8c. Rome seated, helmeted and wearing a long tunic and cloak, and the bust of the prospectus and the legs and head in profile to left. The left arm is bent while holding a long spear in his hand, his right arm is outstretched hand and the hand holds a winged Victory presenting a laurel wreath.
9014SatiroSatyrIntaglio su corniola, mm 11x9 x1,5. Forma 9. Satiro nudo che avanza a passo di danza verso s.; di fronte a lui è visibile parte di un oggetto non ben identificabile, probabilmente uno strumento musicale. Il satiro è una delle figure più frequentemente rappresentate del corteggio di Dioniso. Frattura della parte inferiore sinistra.Satyr nude dances toward advancing to left; in front of him is visible part of not well identifiable object, probably a musical instrument. The satyr is one of the most frequently represented followers of Dionysus. Chip on the lower left edge.Male figure with helmet Colorless translucent glass (imitation of hyaline quartz or rock crystal), mm 14x10x3. Form 15. Clothed bust of a bearded male figure with thick curly hair, frontally placed, characterized by a cap or pileus identifiable with a Corinthian helmet with a raised brow. The iconography recalls Ulysses of the group of Polyphemus of the villa of Tiberius in Sperlonga. She-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus Dark purple opaque glass (imitation of amethyst), mm 10x9x3. Form 2. The she-wolf standing to left turns the head, suckling Romulus and Remus. The theme recurs in the founding myths of various cities with the meaning of Romanitas, but gradually other meanings have emerged. Among these the allusion to mother affection and to the golden age. Chip around the upper left edge.
After Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917) Masque de l`Homme au nez casse (Man with the broken nose) early 20th Century bronze bust, signed `A. Rodin` and with `A. Rudier, Fondeur, Paris` foundry mark, on a marble socle the bronze 12" high. Rodin originally sculpted this model around 1863/4 and submitted it to the Paris Salon of 1865. However, it was refused and only accepted ten years later in 1875 as a marble bust. The sitter of the bust was a workman called Bibi from the Saint-Marcel district of Paris, who swept the artist`s studio. See Ruth Butler, Rodin. The Shape of Genius, pp. 44-46.
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