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Lot 2133
An 18 Carat White Gold Diamond Solitaire Ring, a round brilliant cut diamond in a claw setting, to diamond set shoulders on a flat sided shank, estimated diamond weight 0.45 carat approximately, finger size K see illustration The ring is in good Condition Report made. It is hallmarked with sponsor's mark 'GC&S', Birmingham. The principle diamond measures 4.50mm x 4.50mm = 0.33 carat approximately. It is not possible to measure the depth. The approximate qualities of the diamonds are; colour G/H, clarity SI1/SI2. Gross weight 3.2 grams. Condition Report made 3rd May 2017.
Lot 2042
An Arts & Crafts Opal Ring, an oval opal in a claw setting within a border of small flower heads, to forked shoulders, finger size K see illustration The ring is in good condition. It is stamped '18CT' and in our opinion would test as gold. The opal measures 13.10mm x 6.50mm x 4.18mm approximately. The head measures 18.70mm x 11.70mm. Gross weight 4.6 grams. Condition Report made 9th June 2017.
Lot 2201
A Bi-Metal Calendar Centre Seconds Wristwatch, signed Tag Heuer, Professional 200 Meters, circa 1996, quartz movement, silvered dial with luminous triangular, baton and dot markers, date aperture, Mercedes hands, rotating bezel, screw down crown, screw back numbered WD1221-K-20 Y70856, Tag Heuer bi-metal bracelet with a deployant clasp, 38mm wide, with Tag Heuer boxes, guarantee and instruction booklets and four spare bracelet links see illustration 12.07.17, Case and bracelet with small scratches, dial with luminous markers slightly faded, hand setting correctly, date changing correctly, movement not working.
Lot 2121
A Garnet and Diamond Three Stone Ring, an oval cut garnet between round brilliant cut diamonds in claw settings, to knife edge shoulders, total estimated diamond weight 0.65 carat approximately, finger size K see illustration The ring is in good condition. It is not hallmarked or stamped. There is evidence that the shank has been resized. The garnet is purple violet in colouration and maybe rhodolite. The garnet measures 7.00mm x 5.50mm x 3.90mm approximately. The approximate qualities of the diamonds are; colour G/H, clarity SI1/SI2. Gross weight 2.8 grams. Condition Report made 25th April 2017.
Lot 2046
A Diamond Navette Cluster Ring, old cut diamonds in claw settings, to forked scroll shoulders, total estimated diamond weight 1.00 carat approximately, finger size O1/2 see illustrationThe ring is in good condition. The shank is stamped '18' and in our opinion would test as gold. The approximate qualities of the diamonds are; colour J/K/L, clarity SI1/SI2/I1. Gross weight 3.8 grams. Condition Report made 1st August 2016.
Lot 2122
An 18 Carat White Gold Sapphire and Diamond Half Hoop Ring, two rows of marquise cut sapphires spaced by round brilliant cut diamonds in claw settings, to reeded shoulders, total estimated diamond weight 0.40 carat approximately, finger size M1/2 see illustration The ring is in good condition. It is hallmarked with an illegible sponsor's mark, import London, 1975. The approximate qualities of the diamonds are; colour J/K, clarity SI1/SI2. Gross weight 3.2 grams. Condition Report made 4th April 2017.
Lot 918A
A Howard Keith for H. K. London 1960's Kohinoor four piece suite with aluminium base, comprising large sofa, 78cm high x242cm wide x 82cm deep, two swivel chairs, 92cm high x 90cm wide x 90cm deep and a footstool, 44cm high x 82cm wide x 63cm deep (4) This item is offered for sale as a work of art. it may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and for this reason it should not be used in a private dwelling
Lot 439
Guatemala P 53s Banco de Guatamala 5 Quetzales (1964-71) SPECIMEN. Vase ''Vasija de Uaxactum'' on front. Mayan-Spanish battle scene on back. Diagonal red overprint SPECIMEN and oval SPECIMEN - DE LA RUE & Co LTD. - NO VALUE twice on front and back. Red SPECIMEN No 022 in lower left margin on front. Punched cancelled. # K 0000000. aUNC
Lot 502
Iran P 44p Linzmayer B139ap2 Bank Melli Iran 100 Rials -1944 PROOF. Leopard; Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi on front. Signatures Mohammad Ali Bamdad - Abdol Hossein Ebtehaj. Sasanian bridge in Dezful on back. Letter K in upper right NOT APPROVED FOR FRONT at upper center margin on front. Typed Approved Signed: Date 27/1/44. S.H. Taqizadeh on back. Unique approved note for the back design. aUNC
Lot 80
Cyclades, Seriphos AR Stater. Thraco-Macedonian standard. Circa 475-460 BC. Frog, as seen from above / Shallow quadripartite incuse square, each quadrant containing a dolphin; uncertain retrograde legend: Σ-E-?-↓ around. Unpublished in the standard references including the die study by K. Sheedy, "The Archaic and Early Classical Coinages of the Cyclades", RNS SP 40, 2006, pp. 42-47, 175-177 pls. 4-5. 9.40g, 18mm. Extremely Fine; edge harshly treated at 7 o'clock on obv. Unique and of great numismatic importance. From a private Canadian collection. This previously unpublished coin finally settles once and for all the identification of the frog issues as from the mint of the Cycladic island of Seriphos, with part of the ethnic within three quarters of the reverse four-part incuse square clearly reading Σ-E… Attribution of a single earlier anepigraphic stater to Seriphos was originally argued for by Svoronos in ΒΑΤΑΕΧΟΣ ΣΕΡΙΦΟΣ, JAN 1, 1898, pp. 205-211, on the grounds that this reputedly impoverished island was renowned for its silent frogs (cf. Theophratos fr. 186, Aelian 3.37, Pliny NH 8.227 and the Archilochos text from a Parian monument, cf. Sheedy p. 43, note 294). After the publication of the first frog stater by Svoronos there appeared such a plethora of forgeries created by Constantine Christodoulos that several numismatists considered that only the original stater was genuine. The weight standard employed for this stater is Thraco-Macedonian (ideally about 9.8g), very close to the silver staters of Thasos, the Pangeion tribal region including ‘Lete’ and the Greek polis of Abdera. It is to be noted that this weight standard is also found on the Dodecanese island of Astypalaia (cf. BMC Caria p. 59, 1 and HGC 6, 1267). Seriphos is also known to have issued staters on the Aiginetic standard of 12.2g (Sheedy p. 175, 1-15); Milesian standard of 14.1g (Jenkins NC 1955, pp. 139-140); and a drachm on the Attic-Euboic standard of 4.2g (Sheedy p. 177, 1.2). This variety of weight standards is not unexpected, produced by a small island dependent on international trade. Very little is known from the written sources concerning Seriphos in the archaic period. It was traditionally thought to have been colonised by Aiolians from Thessaly, and later resettled by Ionians from Athens. Seriphos is known to have sent a pentekonter to join the Greek allied fleet at Salamis in 480 BC and contributed two talents to the Delian League in 451/0. In myth, Perseus and his mother Danaë had taken refuge from Argos at Seriphos, and at the request of the king of Seriphos, Polydektes, Perseus killed the Gorgon. Aelian records that on his return to the island with the head of Medusa, Perseus was so exhausted and in need of sleep that Zeus silenced the frogs that kept him awake.
Lot 417
Hadrian BI Tetradrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 11 = AD 126/7. AVK KAI TPAI AΔPIA CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Canopus of Osiris right; L ENΔ-EKATOV (date) around. Köln 939; Dattari (Savio) 1327; K&G 32.404; Emmett 827.11. 12.81g, 25mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. Rare, particularly so well preserved and with such a remarkable, sharply detailed canopic jar.
Lot 147
Ionia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum AV Stater. Circa 155-140 BC. Euphemos, son of Pausanias, magistrate. Draped bust of Artemis to right, wearing stephane, and with bow and quiver over shoulder / Nike, holding kentron and reins, driving fast biga to right; MAΓNHTΩN (of the Magnesians) above, EYΦHMOΣ ΠAYΣANIOY below. Heritage 3056, 30066 (same dies); unpublished in the standard references, but for the magistrate Euphemos son of Pausanias and dating of the stephanophoric tetradrachms of Magnesia, cf. N. F. Jones, "The Autonomous Wreathed Tetradrachms of Magnesia-on-Maeander", ANSMN 24, 1979, pp. 63-109, especially nos. 8-25; for the obverse Artemis bust type cf. B. Head, History of the Coinage of Ephesus, London 1880, p. 69, 1-7, pl. 5 and Mørkholm, Early Hellenistic Coinage, Cambridge 1991, 657 = Gulbenkian 985. 8.44g, 19mm, 12h. Extremely Fine. A coin of extreme rarity and great numismatic importance. The discovery of this totally new reverse type for a gold stater on the Attic weight standard of about 8.5g, fortunately signed by a very well known Magnesian magistrate, solves two long standing numismatic problems. Firstly, it allows for the dating of the Ephesian gold staters with which it is associated (see lot 144), and it confirms the mid second century dating of the Ionian stephanophoric coinage. Euphemos, son of Pausanias, was one of the eight magistrates who were responsible for the substantial silver stephanophoric ‘wreath-bearer’ tetradrachm issues, beautifully engraved and struck on broad flans on the Attic silver standard of about 17.2 grams. It is notable that Magnesia had in the late 4th and early 3rd centuries produced very high quality Attic standard gold staters with polished dies in the names of Philip, Alexander and Lysimachos. The obverse bust of Artemis is of exactly the same style as the well known Ephesos gold staters which depict on their reverse the Ephesian cult figure of Artemis. Until now those Ephesian staters have defied proper dating, having been given a chronological range by various authors from 150 to 88 BC (cf. Gilbert K. Jenkins, ‘Hellenistic gold coins of Ephesus’, in Festschrift E. Akurgal, Anadolu-Anatolia 21, 1978/80, Ankara, 1987, pp. 183-8, pls. A-B). Though of course it does not preclude the possibility that they were struck over an extended period of time, we may now at least say with some certainty that they were already being struck by around 150-140 BC. The evidence from the seven extant stephanophoric tetradrachm hoards from the contemporary territory of the Seleukid Empire, found together with dated Seleukid coins, points to a secure narrow chronological range for all these issues of 150-138 BC. Significantly the Magnesian coinage has often been found in close association with similar wreathed issues from Aigai, Kyme, Myrina, Herakleia, Lebedos and Smyrna in what must have been an unattested ‘entente’ by cities that had been guaranteed their autonomy following the imposition by Rome of the Treaty of Apameia between the Republic and Antiochos III in 188 BC - an attempt to stop the constant quarrelling between the Greeks. For the numismatic history of the period cf. Jones 1979, pp. 90-100 and Ch. Boehringer, Zur Chronologie Mittelhellenistischer Münzserien 220-160 v. Chr., Berlin 1972, pp. 49f.
Lot 434
Uranius Antoninus AR Tetradrachm of Emesa, Seleucis and Pieria. AD 253-254. AVTOK K COVΛΠ ANTωNINOC CEB, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right / ΔHMAPX EΞ OVCIAC, eagle standing right, with wings spread, holding wreath in beak; EMICA SC in exergue. Baldus, "Neue Forschungen zu Uranius Antoninus (Nachtrag III)," JNG XXXIII (1983), p. 33, 1, pl. 10, 8 = Prieur 1034. 12.66g, 29mm, 1h. Good Very Fine. Attractive dark tone. Very Rare. Ex Fritz Rudolf Künker 124, 16 March 2007, lot 9470 (part of).
Lot 144
Ionia, Ephesos AV Stater. Circa 155-140 BC. Draped bust of Artemis right, wearing stephane, and with bow and quiver over shoulder / Cult statue of the Artemis of Ephesos facing, a fillet hanging from each hand; thymiaterion in inner right field, Ε-Φ across fields. G. K. Jenkins, Hellenistic Gold Coins of Ephesos, in Festschrift Akurgal, Ankara, 1987, p. 134, pl. B, 6 (BM) = R Fleuscher I, Artemis von Ephesos und der erwandte Kultstatue von Anatolien und Syrien, EPRO 35, 1973, pl. 53b; LIMC II, pl. 565, 23. 8.39g, 20mm, 12h. Good Very Fine. Very Rare. The Hellenistic era gold coinage struck at Ephesos is extremely rare and rarely well preserved. Previously thought to have all been struck during the Mithradatic wars, this is now known not to be the case. Some seem to be dated by the era of the Province of Asia and the dates they bear are too early for them to be Mithradatic War issues. Certain other issues such as the present example appear to be part of extraordinary issue of gold struck in conjunction with an extremely rare gold stater type of Magnesia in the mid-second century. The style and fabric of both issues seem consistent with an emergency issue struck to meet an immediate expense. The reverse of this coin depicts the famous cult statue of Ephesian Artemis, housed in the great temple of Artemis that is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The original image of the goddess was a wooden xoanon that had represented a pre-Hellenic goddess who the Greeks later equated with Artemis. This first image, which was kept decorated with jewellery, was possibly lost in a flood in the 8th or 7th century which destroyed the temple; excavations have discovered the tear-shaped amber drops of elliptical cross-section which must have dressed it. In circa 550 BC, when reconstruction of the temple was begun (partly financed by Kroisos), it was undertaken in grand style and was supposedly the first Greek temple to be built of marble. The wooden xoanon was replaced by a new ebony or grapewood statue sculpted by Enoidos, which presumably survived until the temple was again destroyed, this time by an act of arson on the part of one Herostratos. The second destruction of the temple coincided with the birth of Alexander the Great; Plutarch later noted that Artemis was too preoccupied with Alexander's delivery to save her burning temple. The form of the goddess is distinctly near-eastern in appearance; characteristics such as her legs being enclosed in a tapering pillar-like term are closely related to Egyptian and Hittite images, and the curious feature of the many protuberances on her chest (usually described as breasts or eggs) are decidedly non-Greek in origin, and indeed have defied explanation or identification for centuries, though an association with fertility seems implicit.
Lot 423
Antoninus Pius Æ Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 9 = AD 145/6. AVT K T AIΛ AΔP ANTωNINOC CԐB ԐVC, laureate head right / [L]ENATOV, Roma seated left on cuirass, holding parazonium and Nike, who offers wreath; shield behind. Emmett 1644; Dattari (Savio) 8661. 27.30g, 35mm, 1h. Very Fine.
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Lot 424
Antoninus Pius Æ Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 24 = AD 160/1. [AVT K] TI AI AΔPI ANTωNINOC CEB EVC], laureate and draped bust right / Ram standing right, wearing hem-hem crown; above, bust of Serapis to right, altar to right, LK- Δ (date) across fields. Köln 1857; Dattari (Savio) 2835; Milne 2418. 20.18g, 32mm, 12h. Very Fine. Rare.
Lot 420
Antinous Æ Hemidrachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 19 of Hadrian = AD 134/5. ANTINOOV HPωOC, draped bust right, wearing hem–hem crown / Antinous, cloaked and holding caduceus, on horseback right; L/I–Θ (date) in field. Köln -; Dattari (Savio) 8007-9; K&G 34a.2; Blum 10; Emmett 1347.19; Kellner p. 108, Abb. 14. 16.59g, 31mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine. Tiny flan flaw to horse's head and slight flatness to tail and caduceus, but well centred and struck, and engraved in the finest style. An outstanding example of the type, and among the finest known. Antinous' death by accidental drowning in the Nile in October AD 130 was a severe blow to Hadrian, for the youth had been his close companion and confidant for nearly five years, and had accompanied the emperor throughout his great tour of the empire beginning in March 127. Hadrian's marriage to Sabina was an unhappy one, and Antinous has been described as "the one person who seems to have connected most profoundly with Hadrian" throughout the latter's life (see R. Lambert, Beloved and God: The Story of Hadrian and Antinous, 1984, p.30). It is unsurprising therefore that Hadrian decreed that Antinous should be elevated to the Roman pantheon as a god, and that a city should be built at the site of his death. What was most unexpected however was that he deified the young man without consulting the Senate, and that he ordered Antinous' image to be placed on coinage across the empire. The coinage in the name of the deified Antinous was substantial. In all, over thirty cities issued bronzes bearing his image, though none as prolifically as Alexandria in Egypt, where his cult, associated with Osiris, was particularly strong. Hadrian himself, we are told, preferred to associate Antinous with Mercury/Hermes, but across the Empire he was far more widely syncretised with the god Dionysus. A great many busts and statues of his were set up in cities across the Roman world, of which numerous examples survive including the iconic 'Braschi Antinous', now in the sala rotonda of the Vatican Museums. That statue, on whose head modern restorers placed a sort of pine cone, would have originally been topped with a lotus flower or hem-hem crown, as on the present coin type. To create the myriad busts, statues and engraved images Hadrian turned to Greek sculptors to perpetuate the melancholic beauty and diffident manner of Antinous, in the process creating what Caroline Vout (Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome, 2007) described as “the last independent creation of Greco-Roman art”. All of his images share certain distinct features, including tousled curls, a perfect Hellenic nasion, and a downcast gaze – that allow him to be instantly recognized.
Lot 421
Antoninus Pius Æ Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 2 = AD 138/9. AVT K T AIΛ AΔP ANTѠNINOC EV CEB, bare-headed and draped bust right / Isis Pharia, holding billowing sail and sistrum, Pharos before; LB above. Dattari (Savio) -; Emmett 1592; RPC Online 15153 (temporary). Very Fine. Extremely Rare; no other examples on CoinArchives.
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Lot 422
Antoninus Pius Æ Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Zodiac Series. Dated RY 8 = AD 144/5. AVT K T AIΛ A∆P [ANTωNЄINOC C]ЄB ЄVC, laureate head right / Venus in Taurus (night house): diademed and draped bust of Aphrodite left, star of eight rays before her, bull butting left below; L-H (date) across fields. Köln 1492; Dattari (Savio) 2960; K&G 35.280; Emmett 1450.8. 24.26g, 32mm, 12h. Very Fine. Very Rare.
Lot 419
Hadrian Æ Drachm of Alexandria, Egypt. Dated RY 18 = AD 133/4. AVT KAIC TPAIAN• AΔPIANOC CЄB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / Isis Pharia standing right, holding billowing sail with both hands; to right, the Pharos of Alexandria: high tower with entrance to left at base and decorated with bosses along sides and surmounted by lantern room, decorated at base by Tritons blowing horns and itself surmounted by statue of Poseidon(?); L-IH (date) above. Köln 1121-2; Dattari (Savio) 1768; K&G 32.588; Emmett 1002.18. 24.80g, 34mm, 12h. Very Fine.
Lot 291
Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Arsinoe II AV Mnaieon - Oktadrachm. Alexandria, circa 253-246 BC. Head right, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped sceptre in background, K to left / Double cornucopiae bound with fillet, grape bunches hanging at sides; APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY around. Svoronos 1242, 1374, and 1498–9; SNG Copenhagen 321-2. 27.62g, 30mm, 1h. Good Very Fine.
Lot 324
Naval General Service Medal, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 bar, and Royal Naval Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; the first, H. M. S. Muzbee, 208568 R. Sharples; the second, H. M. S. Cairo, K. 17760 P. J. Osborn; with four bronze regimental competition medals awarded to R. Sharples (and two blank). CONDITION REPORT: Bronze medals refer to Col./Major/Captain Sharples participation in the Officers Cup in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; surface wear, some minor knocks, some areas of toning, ribbons replaced.
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