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A MARBLE IONIC COLUMN with scrolling capital, 100 cm high, and an alabaster column, 110 cm high

A silver plated five-light Corinthian column candelabra: with foliate capital nozzles on four scrolling branches and central nozzle to the stop-fluted column, raised on a square stepped and weighted base, 48cm. high.

A white marble and gilt metal mounted octagonal pedestal, on spiral reeded central column, with gilt metal capital and circular tiered and octagonal base, 14ins wide x 45.5ins high

A white variegated marble pedestal: with square capital, raised on a plain column and square base, 102cm. high.

19th century Wedgwood black Jasper ware figure of seated Cupid in thoughtful pose, with circular base - impressed title 'Cupid' to rear and Wedgwood mark in small capital letters, 21cm high CONDITION REPORT Whatever Cupid was holding in his left hand is missing, apart from this, it is in good overall condition

Victorian silver plated table lamp base in the form of a classical half-fluted column, with Corinthian-style capital, swag and cord decoration, on a stepped base with foliate borders, originally an oil lamp base, now converted for electricity, 51cm overall height

A Pair of Late Victorian Silver and Carved Ivory Corinthian Column Candlesticks, Thomas Bradbury & Sons, London 1893, with Corinthian capital on a turned and fluted ivory stem to a square base with gadroon borders and foliate corners, detachable sconces, bases filled, 15.5cm high

Burundi, P 11a, Linzmayer B111b, Banque du Royaume du Burundi, 50 Francs, 1 December 1964. Aerial view of capital, Bujumbura on front. Signatures Eric Manirakiza - Gerard Cornu. Coat of arms on back., # A 332388., PMG 67 EPQ, Superb Gem UNC (Finest known)

Burundi, P 11acts, Linzmayer B111at, Banque du Royaume du Burundi, 50 Francs, 1 October 1964, COLOUR TRIAL. Purple. Aerial view of capital, Bujumbura on front. Signatures Eric Manirakiza - Gerard Cornu. Coat of arms on back. Horizontal red overprint SPECIMEN on front and back. Black specimen number 38 in upper left margin on back. Punched cancelled., # A 000000., PMG 66 EPW, Gem UNC

Burundi, P 11s, Linzmayer B111as, Banque du Royaume du Burundi, 50 Francs, 1 October 1964, SPECIMEN. Aerial view of capital, Bujumbura on front. Signatures Eric Manirakiza - Gerard Cornu. Coat of arms on back. Specimen with no overprint, no perforation. Punched cancelled. Red specimen number 84 in upper right margin on front., # A 000000., UNC-

Burundi, P 16a, Linzmayer B202c, Banque de la République du Burundi, 50 Francs, 1 May 1965. Overprint; aerial view of capital, Bujumbura on front. Signatures Eric Manirakiza - Gerard Cornu. Coat of arms on back., # E 812512., PMG 45, Choice XF

Burundi, P 16a, Linzmayer B202d, Banque de la République du Burundi, 50 Francs, 31 December 1965. Overprint; aerial view of capital, Bujumbura on front. Signatures Eric Manirakiza - Gerard Cornu. Coat of arms on back., # G 138970., PMG 58, Choice aUNC

Cayman Islands, P 11a, Linzmayer B111a, Cayman Islands Currency Board, 100 Dollars, L.1974 (1981). Coral; open treasure chest; coat of arms; Queen Elizabeth II on front. Signature Johnson. George Town (capital) harbor with ships and buildings on back., # A/1 177119., PMG 65 EPQ, Gem UNC

Cayman Islands, P 15, Linzmayer B115a, Cayman Islands Currency Board, 100 Dollars, 1991. Coral; conch shell; open treasure chest; coat of arms; Queen Elizabeth II; fish on front. Signature Jefferson. Coral; George Town (capital) harbor with ships and buildings; conch shell on back., # B/1 000094., PMG 66 EPQ, Gem UNC

Cayman Islands, P 15, Linzmayer B115a, Cayman Islands Currency Board, 100 Dollars, 1991. Coral; conch shell; open treasure chest; coat of arms; Queen Elizabeth II; fish on front. Signature Jefferson. Coral; George Town (capital) harbor with ships and buildings; conch shell on back., # B/1 000524., UNC

Cayman Islands, P 15, Linzmayer B115a, Cayman Islands Currency Board, 100 Dollars, 1991. Coral; conch shell; open treasure chest; coat of arms; Queen Elizabeth II; fish on front. Signature Jefferson. Coral; George Town (capital) harbor with ships and buildings; conch shell on back., # B/1 000520., UNC

Kingdom of Lydia, Kroisos AV Stater. Heavy standard. Sardes, circa 564/53-550/39 BC. Confronted foreparts of roaring lion to right and bull to left, each with extended foreleg / Two incuse squares punches. Berk 2; Le Rider, Naissance, pl. V, 2; Traité I 396; BMC 30; Boston MFA 2068–9; Gulbenkian 756. 10.75g, 17mm. Good Very Fine. Rare. Kroisos is credited with issuing the first true gold coins with a standardised purity for general circulation. The series began on a 'heavy' standard, with gold and silver staters of equal weight, around 10.6-10.7 grams, which was later reduced to about 8.17 grams for the gold. Studies have shown that coins of both standards circulated together, but that the heavy standard was only used for a relatively short time compared to the light standard, which continued to be used into the Persian period. All of the coins of Kroisos feature without variation his heraldic badge, the confronted heads of a lion and a bull, both ancient symbols of power. The badge itself doubtless stems from the ubiquitous and persistent theme of the lion-bull combat scene, which may be interpreted as a metaphor for divinely inspired heroic triumph. Indeed, divinely inspired heroic triumph was exactly what Kroisos expected when, encouraged by a prediction by the Delphic Oracle that if he attacked Persia he would destroy a great empire, Kroisos made his preparations for war with Cyrus the Great. The war resulted in defeat for Kroisos; his numerically superior army was smashed, and the capital Sardes was captured along with Kroisos and his family, who were immolated on the orders of Cyrus. Lydia became a satrapy of the Persian Empire, though it continued to mint coins in the traditional types, and indeed the legendary wealth of Kroisos was used by Cyrus to form the basis of a new Persian gold standard currency.

Kingdom of Lydia, Kroisos AV Stater. Light standard. Sardes, circa 564/53-550/39 BC. Confronted foreparts of roaring lion to right and bull to left, each with extended foreleg / Two incuse squares punches. Berk 3; Traité I 401–3; SNG von Aulock 2875; SNG Lockett 2983 = Pozzi 2726; Athena Fund I 60; BMC 31; Boston MFA 2073; Gulbenkian 757; Zhuyuetang 11. 8.08g, 15mm. Good Very Fine. Kroisos is credited with issuing the first true gold coins with a standardised purity for general circulation. His kingdom represented the last bastion against Persian expansion westwards into Greek lands; encouraged by a prediction of the Delphic Oracle that if he attacked Persia he would destroy a great empire, Kroisos made his preparations for war with Cyrus the Great. The war resulted in defeat for Kroisos; his numerically superior army was smashed, and the capital Sardes was captured along with Kroisos and his family, who were immolated on the orders of Cyrus. Lydia became a satrapy of the Persian Empire, though it continued to mint coins in the traditional types, and indeed the legendary wealth of Kroisos was used by Cyrus to form the basis of a new Persian gold standard currency.

Karia, Halikarnassos AR Tetradrachm. Circa 400-387 BC. Head of Apollo facing slightly right / AΛIKAPNAΣΣEΩN, eagle standing to right, with wings spread, star to right; all within shallow incuse square. Cf. S. Hurter, ‘42 Tetradrachmen von Klazomenai’, SNR 45, 1966, p. 45, pl. VI, F = Lorber, Amphipolis, the Civic Coinage in Silver and Gold, 1990, pl. IV, fig 21 = The New York Sale XXVII, 533; Gemini XIII, 80 (same dies); Roma XIII, 328 (same dies). 15.24g, 21.5mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Of the highest rarity; one of only five known tetradrachms of Halikarnassos, and one of just three of this type. Ex Triton XX, 10 January 2017, lot 303. A single example of this important tetradrachm type was published in 1966 by S. Hurter (‘42 Tetradrachmen von Klazomenai’, SNR 45, 1966, p. 45, pl. VI, F) which for over half a century remained the only known example to have survived. Four further examples, including this coin, recently came to light, which though clearly from the same issue, bear different control marks (sunburst or serpent, not bow). Numismatists have however been aware of the coinage series as a whole for quite some time; approximately 34 drachms are known to exist, along with 3 hemidrachms (see the preceding lot), yet it is remarkable that so few of the larger denomination survived. Originally thought to have been struck after the satrap Maussolos moved the capital of the satrapy of Karia from the Hekatomnid ancestral seat of Mylasa to Halikarnassos, the dating of the Hecatomnus hoard disproves this notion. This coinage therefore most likely represents a civil issue of Halikarnassos struck prior to the King’s Peace of 387 BC, when virtually all civil coinages of the Greek states in Asia Minor ceased. Certainly, despite the city having been firmly aligned with Persia in the days of Artemisia in the early fifth century, her grandson Lygdamis II brought the city into the Delian League and the city was, for an uncertain period of time, independent of Persian rule. It is tempting therefore to view this type as a product of the turbulent early years of the fourth century, when the Athenian general Thrasyboulos, in response to renewed conflict with Sparta, began re-establishing Athenian alliances with the cities in Asia Minor that had previously been allies. If this issue, evidently intended to be a reasonably substantial one considering that at least two die pairs existed, was begun in circa 389-387 and cut short by the reassertion of Persian influence in 387, this would explain the relative rarity of this series today. That the obverse of this coinage was heavily influenced by the Rhodian facing-head coinage that had been recently introduced is clear. That it was retained by the Hekatomnid satraps as the obverse type of their coinage once the move from Mylasa to Halikarnassos was complete is also evident, but more difficult to explain. Relegating his father’s obverse of Zeus Labraundos to the reverse while doing away entirely with the lion motif may have been nothing more than political expedient aimed at cultivating goodwill, but perhaps it may also reflect the distinct thread of philhellenism that ran through the Hekatomnid family.

Phrygia, Gordion AR Obol. Autonomous issue, circa 2nd-1st centuries BC. Jugate busts of Artemis and Apollo, both laureate, quiver over the shoulder of Artemis / Bow and quiver, ΓOΡΔI-ANΩN vertically across fields. Paris AA.GR.10254 = Borrell, Unedited Greek Coins, p. 27 in NC 1845-1846; otherwise unpublished. 0.70g, 9mm, 7h. Extremely Fine. Of the highest rarity, only the second specimen known and the only one in private hands. From a private English collection. The only other example of this excessively rare coinage, the only known issue of Gordion, was published in the Numismatic Chronicle in 1846 by H. P. Borrell. Not a single other specimen has come to light in the intervening 172 years. It must not be confused with Gordus, or Gordus-Julia, under which entry it is incorrectly listed by the Bibliothèque nationale, who hold the Borrell specimen. Gordion was the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Phrygia, of which the quasi-legendary Midas was the most famous king. The city was destroyed c. 800-700 BC, but according to ancient tradition the knot with which Midas had tied a wagon (associated with the prophetic rise to power of Midas’ father, Gordias) to a pole in dedication to the Phrygian god Sabazios still stood on the acropolis of the city when Alexander came upon the place in 333 BC, from which comes the legendary story of Alexander and the Gordion Knot. After the death of Alexander in 323 BC, Gordion was controlled by Antigonos, the Seleukids, Celts, Attalids and finally by the Romans from 189 BC. The timing of this coin’s issue is uncertain, but we may presume that it was struck during a brief period of autonomy, perhaps under Roman suzerainty.

Parthia, Andragoras AR Tetradrachm. Hekatompylos, circa 246/5-239/8 BC. Turreted head of Tyche right, wearing pendant earring and necklace; monogram of Andragoras behind / Athena standing left, wearing helmet, long chiton and himation, holding owl on extended right hand and resting left hand on grounded shield, transverse spear in background; ANΔPAΓOPOY to right. Roma XIV, 326; Mitchiner 20; BMC 3-4, pl. xxviii, 2-3. 16.71g, 24mm, 6h. Extremely Fine. One of exceedingly few known examples. From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA. Coming from the same group of coins of the Oxus region, selections of which were presented in Roma XIV, it is now certain that the Andragoras for whom this type was struck is the same Andragoras attested as having been satrap of Parthia under Seleukos I. It is therefore clear that past scholarship often tended to date the coinage of Andragoras much too early, occasionally to the period immediately following the death of Alexander the Great, and that Justin (xii. 4) simply had his dating confused. During what appeared to be the imminent collapse of the Seleukid Empire in the Third Syrian War, when Ptolemy III of Egypt seized control of the Seleukid capital at Antioch from Seleukos II in retaliation for the death of his sister Berenike, Andragoras seceded from the empire and made his satrapy of Parthia into an independent kingdom. However, Andragoras had difficulty in maintaining his borders without the military support provided by the Seleukid Empire, and in about 238 BC the Parni invaded under the command of Arsakes and his brother Tiridates and seized control of the northern region of the Parthian territory. Andragoras appears to have been killed either attempting to retake this territory, or while resisting the Parni conquest of the remainder of Parthia.

Claudius AR Denarius. Rome, AD 46-47. TI CLAVD CAESAR•AVG•P•M•TR•P•VI IMP•XI, laureate head right / DE BRITANN on architrave of triumphal arch surmounted by equestrian statue to left between two trophies. RIC 34; C. 18; BMCRE 35; RSC 18. 3.85g, 19mm, 4h. Good Extremely Fine. Sound, lustrous metal. Very Rare; an outstanding example of the type, arguably the finest present on CoinArchives. In AD 43, Claudius sent the distinguished senator Aulus Plautius with four legions to Britannia after an appeal from the Roman ally Verica, ousted king of the Atrebates. The Roman invasion was contested by an alliance of tribes led by Togodumnus and Caratacus, sons of the late king of the Catuvellauni, Cunobelinus. The legions met stiff resistance at a river crossing thought to be near Rochester on the river Medway; in the course of this two-day engagement the Legio II Augusta commanded by the future emperor Vespasian forded the crossing and engaged the Britons while an auxiliary unit of Batavians swam the river and made a surprise attack on the Britons’ armed chariots. The first day ended without a decisive result, and on the second the contest was again indecisive until Gnaeus Hosidius Geta personally led his legion (probably the IX Hispana) into the fray; the legate was himself nearly surrounded, but turned the battle and defeated the enemy so resoundingly that he was awarded triumphal ornaments even though he had not yet held the consulship (Cassius Dio, LX.20). Plautius halted the advance after a further engagement at the Thames, to which the Britons had withdrawn as their next line of defence, and sent for the emperor as he had been instructed to do. Claudius brought with him reinforcements, doubtless including a sizeable part of the Praetorian Guard, heavy armaments, and a contingent of war elephants to overawe the natives. Cassius Dio relates that Claudius, taking command of the Roman forces, “crossed the stream, and engaging the barbarians, who had gathered at his approach... defeated them and captured Camulodunum, the capital of Cunobelinus. Thereupon he won over numerous tribes, in some cases by capitulation, in others by force, and was saluted as imperator several times, contrary to precedent”. For the victories won in Britannia, the Senate voted Claudius the title of ‘Britannicus’, a triumph, and that there should be two triumphal arches erected – one in the city, and the other in Gaul, whence Claudius had sailed when he crossed over to Britain. This rare denarius depicts the anticipated triumphal Arch of Claudius, commissioned in AD 43, but which would not be dedicated until AD 51. It was a conversion of one of the arches of the Aqua Virgo aqueduct where it crossed the Via Flaminia, the main road to the north of Rome, but is now lost and a fragment of the inscription is all that remains, housed in the Capitoline Museum. The full inscription has been reconstructed however from the sister-arch that was built at Gesoriacum (Boulogne-sur-Mer).

Domitian AR Denarius. Rome, AD 90. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VIIII, laureate head right / IMP XXI COS XV CENS P P P, Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column, holding shield and spear; owl to her right. RIC 690; C. 262; BMCRE 166. 3.41g, 18mm, 6h. Fleur De Coin.

Hadrian AV Aureus. Rome, AD 124-128. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder / COS III, Capitoline wolf standing left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus. RIC 193d; Strack 195θ; Calicó 1233a; BMCRE 449; Biaggi 598. 7.33g, 21mm, 6h. Mint State. A superb aureus of Hadrian with this ever-popular motif of the foundation myth. From the property of B.R.S., United Kingdom. The only shared component in the foundation legends recorded since the third century BC is that Romulus and Remus were the twin sons of a Vestal Virgin called Rhea Silvia. For the rest of the myth, there are many variances, but one of the most commonly attested narratives is the one told by Livy in his History of Rome. According to Livy, Rhea Silvia was the daughter of Numitor, the rightful king of Alba Longa (the city founded by Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, at the foot of the Alban hills) who was usurped by his brother Amulius and his progeny killed or, in his daughter’s case, deprived of hope of having children through being forced to be a Vestal Virgin. Rhea Silvia became pregnant through an encounter with the god Mars and the twins were set afloat on the flooded Tiber in the hope they would drown as ordered by the king of Alba Longa. Their crying attracted the attention of a she-wolf who nursed them and was so gentle that the shepherd Faustulus who found them, saw the wolf licking the human babies. The twins were then taken in by Faustulus and his wife and raised in the area around the Palatine hill until, as adults, they overthrew the usurper king and decided to found their own community where they had grown up. This type can be traced back to the earliest coinage of the Republic; a silver didrachm (Crawford 20/1) dated to circa 264-255 BC depicts on the obverse a youthful Hercules wearing a lion skin around his neck, and upon the reverse are the twins being suckled by the she-wolf. The type, either alone or as an adjunct motif, was sporadically reused into imperial times and was prominently featured on aurei and denarii of Domitian. Perhaps it was useful for Hadrian, who spent more than half his reign outside Italy, to draw upon a traditional Roman image as a reminder of his connection to home while away on his travels across the empire. Later examples of the type include coins produced under Constantine I, who, from AD 330, issued a vast number of small coins celebrating Rome by pairing a helmeted head of Roma with the twins and she-wolf motif following his foundation of Constantinople as a new capital in the East. The coin type was probably inspired by ancient statues of the wolf and twins, which unfortunately do not survive but their existence is verified by several ancient accounts; Livy’s History of Rome (10.23) states that in 295 BC a statue was placed near the Ficus Ruminalis (the fig tree at the foot of the Palatine hill which the legend says is the spot where the twins landed having floated along the Tiber) and Cicero reports how a statue of Romulus being suckled by the she-wolf was struck by lightning in 65 BC (Against Catiline, 3.19).

Caracalla AV Aureus. Rome, AD 198. IMP CAE M AVR ANT AVG P TR P •, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MINER VICTRIX, Minerva standing left, holding Victory and inverted spear; shield at her side, trophy to right. RIC 25b; Calicó 2696 = Biaggi 1183 (same rev. die). 7.36g, 20mm, 12h. Near Mint State; superbly lustrous and undoubtedly one of the finest known examples of the type. Very Rare. From the property of B.R.S., United Kingdom. The reverse type of this coin had ancient roots; the evolution of the type can be traced back as far as the denarii of C. Vibius C. f. Pansa in 90 BC, which featured the figure of Minerva, holding a trophy over her shoulder, in a galloping quadriga (Crawford 342/5). Julius Caesar further popularised the Minerva Victrix type with his use of a standing design upon his bronze issue of 45 BC (Crawford 476/1), and in this standing form the type would be popularised under Domitian, who adopted Minerva as his patron deity; Domitian’s provincial coinage also features the first appearance of Minerva standing with a trophy behind her (RPC II 2304). Yet the type in its present form was instituted comparatively late on, in the reign of Commodus c. AD 188/9, when it was used on very rare aurei (Calicό 2290a) and bimetallic medallions (Gnecchi II, p. 57, 48), sestertii and denarii. It may seem strange that the Severans should wish to prominently re-use a type commisioned for Commodus, particularly given how fresh the excesses and outrages committed by that former emperor would still have been in the minds of Roman citizens everywhere. However, Caracalla’s father Septimius Severus was himself a usurper, albeit to an emperor who had shamefully bought the imperial throne at auction. Thus Septimius, in order to shore up his ambitions to forge an imperial dynasty, was required for appearances’ sake to legitimise his rule in the eyes of mob. This inevitably manifested itself, as with the Flavians a century before, in the form of piety towards the earlier ‘good’ emperors. In Septimius’ case, he owed his rank and position to advances gained under Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, the latter of whom had himself appointed Septimius as governor of Pannonia Superior in AD 191. He therefore sought to apply a veneer of validity to his assumption of the helm of empire by force, which he did by styling himself the ‘son of Marcus’, and renaming his eldest son (who would be known to history by his nickname Caracalla) Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. In so doing, Septimius effectively adopted himself and his heir into the Antonine family. He furthermore made efforts to rehabilitate the memory of Commodus, and forced an unwilling Senate to deify the late emperor in 195. In 197, the year before this aureus was struck, Septimius was faced with a large-scale Parthian incursion into Roman Mesopotamia, only recently pacified after a campaign in 195 against rebellious local vassal states. Septimius’ military response began with the rapid subjugation of the Parthian-allied kingdom of Armenia, from where he marched to the relief of the strategically important city of Nisibis. Septimius then divided his army into three; the main force he led along the Euphrates to attack the dual metropolis of Seleucia-on-the-Tigris and Ctesiphon, while the second force would ravage eastern Mesopotamia, and the third would recross the Tigris into Adiabene. Babylon and Seleucia-on-the-Tigris were taken without resistance, and in January 198 the Parthian king Vologases chose to meet the Roman army in the field before the walls of the capital Ctesiphon. The battle resulted in a resounding defeat for the Parthians; the city itself was breached and thoroughly sacked - the male population was exterminated and ancient sources attest to 100,000 being enslaved. On January 28, the exact centenary of Trajan’s accession, Septimius proclaimed that he had conquered Parthia, and took the title that Trajan had first held, ‘Parthicus Maximus’. On the same day he conferred the rank of Augustus and status of co-emperor on his nine year old son Caracalla. This aureus, like many Severan issues struck in 198, makes reference to this victory over Rome’s old nemesis.

Jotapian AR Antoninianus. Nicopolis Seleuciae, AD 248-249. IMP M F RV IOTAPIA[NVS], radiate and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AVGV, Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm branch. RIC 2c; C. 2; Bland, Essays Carson, - , cf. 1. 3.06g, 20mm, 12h. Very Fine. Usual rough surfaces. Very Rare. From the collection of D.I., Germany, purchased before 1992. Jotapian, a member of the near-eastern indigenous aristocracy who claimed descent from an Alexander (possibly either Alexander Severus, or Antiochos I of Commagene, who himself claimed Alexander the Great as an ancestor), led a rebellion against Philip centred around Syria in response to an increase in taxation ordered by the rector orientis Priscus, Philip’s brother. Jotapian made Antioch his capital, but the rebellion quickly came to an end when Jotapian was killed by his own soldiers.

Numerian AV Aureus. Rome, AD 284. IMP NVMERIANVS P F AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right / VIRTVS AVGG, Hercules standing to right, leaning on club with his left hand and resting his left on his hip. RIC 407; C. -; Calicó 4334. 4.66g, 20mm, 5h. Extremely Fine - Good Extremely Fine; pierced in antiquity. Extremely Rare, no other examples on CoinArchives. From the collection of D.I., Germany, purchased before 1992. The great rarity of this coin is in large part due to the brevity of Numerian's reign. In 282, the legions of the upper Danube in Raetia and Noricum rebelled and proclaimed the praetorian prefect Marcus Aurelius Carus emperor in opposition to Probus. Probus' army, stationed in Sirmium, decided they did not wish to fight Carus and assassinated Probus instead. Carus, already sixty, immediately elevated his sons Carinus and Numerian to the rank of Caesar. In 283 Carus determined to take advantage of a succession crisis within the Sassanid empire, and marched east at the head of an army along with Numerian, while Carinus was left in charge in the West. The invasion met with great success, and the army was able to make huge incursions into Persian lands, and even capture the capital Ctesiphon. The campaign came to a premature end when Carus died suddenly (according to some sources, from a lightning strike). Numerian made an orderly retreat from Persia, and subsequently died in mysterious circumstances during the journey west. Amid rumours of murder, the prefect Aper was executed by the man who went on to become emperor. Diocletian, previously an officer under Carus, was acclaimed by the army and proceeded to continue the march west, meeting Carinus' army in battle in Moesia and emerging as victor and emperor. The reverse of this stunning aureus typifies the propagandist nature of Roman coinage, and bestows on Numerian the quality of 'virtus', which encompassed valour, manliness, excellence, courage, character, and worth - the necessary attributes of a Roman and especially of an emperor. Coupled with the standing figure of Hercules, with his usual attributes of club and lion's skin, this reverse references the military victories that Numerian and Carus achieved in the east and likens them to the completion of Hercules' labours.

Merovingians, AV Solidus. In the name of Anastasius. Time of Clovis I - Chlothar II, circa AD 500-587. PHΛNΛCTA[...] SIV - YUAVC, helmeted and cuirassed bust of Anastasius facing, holding spear and shield; Θ to right / VICTORI ΛUYGG, Victory standing left, holding long voided cross; star over monogram (FET?) in right field, CONOB in exergue. Unpublished in the standard references, for type cf. Belfort 5045-68; MEC 343-348; Collection NK 1013-23; for monogram cf. Prou p. cxvi. 4.43g, 20mm, 6h. Near Mint State. Unique. There is still no modern comprehensive study on the Frankish coinage of the early Merovingian period, namely the pseudo-imperial gold solidi and tremisses issued in the names of the eastern emperors Anastasius, Justin I and Justinian I, with Victory as a reverse type. The largest collection of material is published in A. De Belfort, Description générale des monnaies mérovingiennes, tome IV (Paris, 1894, reprinted in 1996), nos. 5022-5356. Under the Roman Empire the minting of gold coins was a jealously guarded imperial monopoly, a privilege respected by the early Frankish kings who had little idea of the state as a public institution and could not conceive of any other form of government or economic system beyond that of their primitive Frankish tribal groupings. These pseudo-imperial issues were initially struck in the name of the eastern emperor Anastasius (491-518), who realised the military qualities of Clovis I and in 508 bestowed on him the titles of consul and patrician. Gold solidi continued to be struck until the late 580s in various styles and engraving quality and exhibit a large variety of mint initials and symbols for an ever expanding kingdom which had once been Roman civilised Gaul. This pseudo-imperial gold appears to have been withdrawn in about 587 in favour of a new national coinage with clearer mint marks, moneyers names and royal titles, so characteristic of later Merovingian coinage. Throughout this period the Frankish kings had usually deferentially respected the imperial convention of issuing pseudo-imperial gold coins in the emperor’s name, but there was a striking exception: Theodebert I (534-548) had the audacity to break imperial custom by minting gold coins containing his own name and image (cf. Belfort 5467-5472and MEC 389). Not surprisingly, the Byzantine chronicler Agathias recorded the rumour in Constantinople that Theodebert was suspected of planning an invasion of Thrace. During the migration period of the 4th and 5th centuries AD the Franks were one of the principal elements in the West Germanic peoples, which included the Suevi, Burgundians, Ostrogoths and Visigoths. They settled in two principal groups; the Salians to the north-west of the river Rhine frontier covering modern Brabant and Flanders up to the Somme, and the kingdom of the Riparians around Cologne in the area between the rivers Moselle and Rhine. As Roman federate allies for much on the 5th century, the Franks achieved political mastery of much of Gaul under the leadership of the Salian Childeric (c. 457-481) and his son Clovis I (Chlodovech, 481-511), who became king as a boy of 15 at Tournai and whose talents can only be inferred from his legendary achievements. Culturally the Franks owed nearly everything to their contact with Gallic Rome, and they spoke a Latin dialect, the basis of modern French. The very name Clovis (in reconstructed Frankish ‘Hlodoweg’ meaning ‘renowned fighter’) was to morph into Latin as Ludovicus and the modern names Louis and Ludwig. During his reign Clovis increased Frankish power by brute force, putting to an end the old divisions between Ripuarian and Salic Franks and defeating the independent Roman governor Syagrius at Soissons in 476. According to the late 6th century History of Gregory of Tours, Clovis’ conversion to Catholicism was largely due to the influence of his second wife, the Burgundian Princess Clothilda who he married in 493. This was a brilliant diplomatic move, followed by a long series of royal baptisms started in Rheims by St Remi in 496. Clovis now forged a new Frankish identity allied to the Roman population of Gaul which was of great help in the struggle with the Arian Visigoths whom he defeated at Vouillé in 507 when he took over Aquitaine. Eventually he gained control over most of ancient Gaul, now called the Kingdom of the Franks (Francia). From his chosen capital at Paris, Clovis coordinated the political and economic organization of his kingdom with a council of bishops. There he also instituted the Salic Law, which codified the traditions of the Salian Franks with Roman law, still in force in Provence in southern France. Part of the Salic Law stipulated that a kingdom be equally divided among the immediate heirs of a ruler. On the death of Clovis in 511, Francia was divided into four nearly equal shares. His immediate successors, styling themselves ‘Merovingian’ after their semi-mythical ancestor named Merovech, were: Thierry I, Chlodomir, Childebert and Chlotar I, who inherited Metz, Orleans, Paris and Soissons respectively. Their greed and discord made them bitter and faithless enemies. When Chlodomir died in 524, Childebert and Chlotar murdered his sons and took his share. Yet Francia survived as one kingdom: Childebert I died in 558, and the extinction of his debauched grandson Theodebald I in 555 left the remaining Merovingian Chlotar I sole king. By this time Francia was even larger than it had been under Clovis: Thuringia was conquered by Thierry I in the early 530s; Burgundia occupied in 534 and Provence taken from the Ostrogoths in 537; much of northern Italy was occupied by Theodebert I in the early 540s, though not retained and recovered by Justinian's reconquest of Italy in the 560s.

A 9ct yellow gold flat link chain necklace, length 59cm, a 9ct yellow gold fancy link bracelet, length 18cm and a 14ct yellow gold brooch in the shape of a capital R, combined approx 12g (3).

An auction leaflet 'To be sold by auction on the premises in Northwich, (...) together with 41 tons of capital high dried Dutch salt' with hand written valuations of salt pans, a map of 'The North Riding of Yorkshire described by Richard Blome', 1672, 31.5 x 35cm, and a group of prints depicting religious and historical scenes.

78s / Columbia plus labels, Over two hundred 10" 78s all with labels beginning with 'C' the majority Columbia but also including Capital, Commodore and Cameo featuring artists Ruth Etting, Lee Morse, Johnny Hodges and Wingy Manone - various years and conditions

78s / Decca/Capital labels & others, s thirty four 10" on a variety of labels including MGM 3065 (Helen Kane), Regal 5380 (Jimmie Rodgers), The Gramophone & Typewriter Co (one sided 'I'm Old but I'm Awfully Tough') and Brunswick (Al Jolson 3867 & 3014) - various years and conditions.

78s / Jerry Colonna & others, forty plus 10" 78s on various labels, Capital, HMV, Brunswick and Columbia - varous years and conditions

A pair of late Victorian silver candlesticks by Hawksworth, Eyre & Co Ltd , Sheffield 1907 , with detachable sconce, Corinthian capital, fluted and reeded column on stepped, gadrooned foot

A late 19th century yellow, red and white onyx plinth, fashioned as a column with a cast brass capital and foot, 35 1/2" h, 7 1/2" sq

19th Century, Tempera on Wood, 35.5x31.5 cm. These icons depicting small half or shoulder-length images are for private prayer and would be used in a domestic setting. A traditional Russian Orthodox house would have a special shrine or ‘beautiful corner’ (rus. krasnuiy ugol) in the main room and consisting of a shelf or shelves across the angle in the corner on which were family icons: Christ, the Mother of God, Saint Nicholas, name saints of family members and others icons of special significance to that particular family. A person entering would venerate the icons (bowing towards them and crossing themselves) before greeting the people in the room. The image of the Virgin (‘Kazanskaya’) which was discovered on July 8, 1579 by Matrona, a young girl in the city of Kazan. The date corresponds to Ivan the Terrible’s capture of Kazan, the ancient capital of the Tatar Mongols and is one of the popular depictions of Mother of God, the Image of Mother of God from Vladimir is one ofethe oldest in the russian tradition, Christ is shown in half-length, with his eyes gazing at the viewer but also with a sense of deep contemplation. His right hand is raised in a gesture signifying oration (or teaching). In his left hand he holds an open book with an inscription, St Nicholas is shown in half-length, wearing the classical vestments of a bishop. His right hand is raised in an ancient gesture signifying oration (or teaching), while he is holding an open gospel book in his left hand. His eyes gaze directly at the viewer. Fine condtion, cracked in the middle.

A mahogany four post bed , circa 1780 and later, with silk hangings throughout, the canopy with a pendant moulded cornice, above the pair of carved and turned posts at the front, each with a stylised capital above the hexagonal baluster shaped column section carved with husk terminals, the reeded section above chamfered square uprights, plinth bases and concealed casters, approximately 212cm high, 162cm wide, 216cm long Provenance: T he collection of the late John Marsh, Lawnswood House, South Staffordshire.

Antiquarian Books - Medical - Budd (George), Diseases of the Liver, third edition, John Churchill, London 1857, full-page chromolithographic plates, buckram, 8vo; Anonymoys, Ministering Children, Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, London 1862, full-page monochrome lithographs, 16mo; Smith (Edward), Manual For Medical Officers of Health, Knight & Co., London 1873, adverts to verso, contemporary buckram, 12mo; Brodie (Sir Benjamin C., Bart., F.R.S.), Lectures on The Dieseases of The Urinary Organs, fourth edition, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London 1849, contemporary green buckram, 8vo; Holden (Luther), Landmarks: Medical and Surgical, third edition, J. & A. Churchill, London 1881, contemporary cloth, 8vo; Squire (Peter), The New London Pharmacopoeia [...], John Churchill, London 1851, contemporary buckram, 4to; Payne (Joseph Frank, M.D., F.R.C.P.), Plagues Ancient and Modern; Or, The Black Death and the Sweating Sickness, Adlard and Son, London 1889, pamhplet, 8vo; Joseph Frank Payne, M.D., F.R.C.P., British Medical Association, [London] 1910, pamphlet, 8vo; etc; Language and Dialect - Silvan Evans (Daniel), An English and Welsh Dictionary, Adapted to the Present State of Science and Literature [...], two-volume set, Thomas Gee, Denbigh 1852 - 1858, 20th century leather spines and angles, contemporary cloth boards, 8vo; Charles (Barch. Thomas), Scriptural Dictionary: Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol [...], Gan Hughes and Son, Wrexham 1885, contemporary embossed black leather, 4to; Welsh Imprint, Goldsmith (Oliver), [Natural History], A. Fullarton & Son, Edinburgh and London [c. 1870], contemporary half-green leather and buckram boards, 4to; Welsh New Testament, 1806, contemporary calf (disbound), 12mo; Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, As spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa, Compiled and Prepared [...] by the Rev. W. Holman Bentley, The Baptist Missionary Society, London 1887, 20th century black buckram, 8vo; Handbook of the Scottish Language, J.L. Smith, Edinburgh 1858, blue buckram boards, floppy, 16mo; Harris (W. Gregory), Ballads of Bath, And other West Country Verses, With a Preface by Horace Annesley Vachell, Mendip Press, Ltd., Bath 1943, d/j, card boards, 8vo, (2),

A contemporary table lamp in the form of a classical column with scrolled capital with wrythen acanthus detail and square platform base

A 19th century continental table centre comprising a pierced circular dish raised on a stand with applied cherubs and floral detail, with capital R mark to base, total height 34cm

19th-early 20th century AD. A group of twelve manuscripts consisting of: one with Hebrew text, ten Coptic in Greek and Coptic text, some with Arabic to the side; one in Latin with red sentence headers and panel with decorative capital in form of a dragon. 39 grams total, 9-27cm (3 1/2 - 10 1/2"). Property of an Canadian lady; acquired 1970s-1990s. [12, No Reserve] Fine condition.

A 19th Century ebonised longcase clock of architectural form, thirty hour movement with silvered chapter ring and seconds subsidiary dial and matted centre enclosed by a brass capital pillared hood over a fielded panelled door on canted plinth base, height 214cm A/F

A 19th Century oak longcase clock case with brass capital pillared hood and a similar case, no movements (2) A/F

dating: 1992 provenance: England, 'Inquisition and the Crime of Capital Punishment'; Avon & Arno, Aslockton, 1992; 156 pages with b/w illustrations. Colored hardcover. height 28.5 cm.

A Victorian ruby glass table lamp with cast metal acanthus leaf base and fitting, together with a blue glass example with scrolling base and a white glass column example with stepped gilded metal base and acanthus capital fitting, 62cm high (3)

A mid 19th Century red sandstone gargoyle architectural capital, initials I.B and dated 1850, 20cm by 20cm

Hugo de Prato Florido. Sermones de sanctis, collation: A-B6 a-n8 o12+1 p-z8 [et]8 [con]8 A-D8 E6, double column, 254 ff. (of 255, lacking blank a1), B6 blank, 48-51 lines, Gothic type, capital spaces, 09 contemporary ink marginalia at head, A1 with tear at foot and small section missing from outer margin (both without loss of text), blank f. loose, worming to last few ff., worse to final 2ff. with loss of a few letters or words, some water-staining and spotting, contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, covers with triple filets forming an intersecting triple frame and circular floral and almond shaped fleuron stamps, lower cover compartments decorated with fleuron and foliate staff stamps, spine in compartments, soiled and rubbed, folio (270 x 193mm.), [Ulm], [Conrad Dinckmut], [1486].⁂ Rare at auction. These sermons are now attributed to the thirteenth-century Augustinian Evrardus de Valle Scholarum. It is interesting to note that the binding on our copy is very similar to that of the Bodleian copy referenced here, both of which were likely bound at the Benedictine monastery at Benediktbeuren. Literature: Goff H-514; HC 9010; Bod-in H-233; BSB-Ink E-135.

A Breche Violette marble column, 19th century, with gilt metal Corinthian capital, on block form base, 110cm high

Two similar carved stone Capital Planters 11in H

A ladies gilt metal and enamel boudoir clock, the enamel dial with Roman numerals and floral decoration above a central panel depicting a courting couple in a naturalistic landscape framed by enamelled pillars with further figures within a gilt frame and with scrolls and shells, easel support. Height 14 cm (see illustration). CONDITION REPORT: The clock dial has a very fine crack running from the bottom of the Roman numeral I to the bottom of II and terminating at the top of the Roman numeral III. This cannot be seen without using a jewellers loop, and is not visible to the naked eye. The enamel panels all appear to be in good order with no obvious faults. The pillars rotate and may need tightening up. On the left hand pillar there is a small chip on the lady's skirt running to the bottom of her foot. There are also a couple of very tiny nibbles to the top of the pillar beneath the capital. The right hand pillar appears to be almost intact however there is a very tiny circular chip/bruise just below the gentleman's right foot (approximately 5 mm away). The metalwork all appears to be in good order and the clock works.

A brass table lamp, early 20th century, with Corinthian capital on a fluted column in turn above a square stepped base and with inscription "Presented to Rev. John Rule BA by The Fishwick CE Society June 1905". Height including shade 60 cm. CONDITION REPORT: Traces of silver plate.

An early 20th century brass standard lamp, with Corinthian capital, square stepped base and four paw feet (see illustration).

AFTER JOHN LEECH PAIR OF COLOUR PRINTS 'A Frolic Home After a Bad Day' 'A Capital Finish' 16 ¾" x 24 ½" (42.5cm x 62.2cm), (2)

A Set of Four Early George III Silver Corinthian Column Candlesticks, Ebenezer Coker, London 1761, the square base with gadroon border and C scroll and shell relief decoration, the pierced capital with detachable sconce, the bases engraved with an armorial, the sconces with a crest of a demi-lion, inset wood base, 30cm high (4)

An Oak Thirty Hour Longcase Clock, signed Wm Porthouse, Penrith, 1764, flat top pediment, 11-1/2-inch square brass dial, matted dial centre with date aperture and two plaques signed Wm Porthouse, Penrith, and Willm & Mary Weftgarth 1764, four pillar movement with anchor escapement and outside countwheel striking on a bell, 208cm high see illustration 12.02.18, Hood pediment with small chips to the edges, back right hand side bottom capital is damaged, left hand side mouldings to the top of the trunk is missing and the front moulding is loose, base with scuff marks to the sides, back feet are missing, dial is discoloured and needs re-silvering, movement needs cleaning, with one weight and pendulum.

Florins (3): 1887 Jubilee, capital J, D.810 EF, ditto EF edge knocks, and 1887 Jubilee, normal J, D.811, EF

An early 20th century silver plated pedestal table lamp, having Corinthian capital on fluted column, to a stepped square base, h.60cm (including fittings)

An early 20th century brass oil lamp, having opalescent globular shade above a brass reservoir, on fluted column with Corinthian capital to a square stepped base (later converted), h.74cm

GB - KEDVIII Booklet Panes, 4 stamps + 2 labels PB5(12) & PB5a(12) Safety of Capital / Universal Fixed Trust, Upright and inv wmk. LMM both without selvage. (2)

GB - KEVIII 1936 2/- Booklet SG BC2 Edition 358. Fine & complete, with pane PB5(10) For Safety of Capital / Universal Fixed Trust. All panes upright wmk. Average perfs