Auction Highlights
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Roman Domitian - Rome - Aureus
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,600
88 AD. Obv: DOMITIANVS AVGVSTVS legend laureate head right. Rev: GERMANICVS COS XIIII legend Germania seated right on shield, mourning; broken spear below. -
Anglo-Saxon Saroaldo - Primary Sceatta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,035
Circa 680-710 AD. 'Saroaldo' Type 11. Obv: bust right, small cross in front of hair, annulet below nose. Rev: standard enclosing FIT/RV legend. -
Saxon Archbishop Aethelheard with Coenwulf - Group III Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,990
798-805 AD. Fifth Issue. Obv: AR (abbreviation for Archiepiscopi) at centre with +AEDELHEAR:D legend with last D retrograde. Rev: M at centre with +COE.NVLFR.EX legend with the V and X surrounded by pellets. -
Stuart Scarborough - Siege Piece - Crown
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,590
July 1644 - July 1645. Scarborough Castle besieged. A uniface crown of five shillings formed from a piece of flattened out domestic silver (with one edge showing the rim moulding of the original vessel) and bearing a single, stamped impression of a depiction of the castle with gate to side and the letters V below S (for five shillings). -
English Milled Coins - William and Mary - 1692/2 Quinto - Crown
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,335
Dated 1692. Obv: conjoined busts with GVLIELMVS. ET. MARIA. DEI. GRATIA. legend. Rev: cruciform arms with date at centre having last '2' struck over an inverted '2' and with MAG. BR. FR. ET. HI. REX. ET. REGINA legend. Edge: with DECVS. ET. TVTAMEN. ANNO. REGNI. QVINTO legend. -
Edward IV - Dublin - Halfgroat
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,140
1463-1467 AD. Second Crown Coinage. Obv: large crown with two saltires above in tressure of nine arcs with EDWAR DEI GRA D HYBER legend. Rev: long cross dividing POSVI DEV ADIVTORE ME and CIVITAS DVBLIN legends for Dublin mint. -
World German States - Saxony - Friedrich August 1740 - Thaler
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,840
Dated 1740. Vicariat Issue. Obv: profile bust with FRID AUG REX POL DUX SAX ARCHIMARESCHALL ET ELECTOR D G legend. Rev: double-headed eagle with arms and date with IN PROVINCIISIVR SAXON PROVISORET VICARIVS legend. -
Greek Gold Funerary Diadem
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,840
Circa 3rd century BC. A funerary diadem formed as a fine (0.1 mm thickness) gold sheet, expanding slightly towards the central ellipse, with repoussé palmettes and scrolls; the ends provided with loops to facilitate tying around the forehead. -
Southern Italian Red-Figure Calyx-Krater
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,990
Circa 4th century BC. A well-painted red figure ware krater with restrained use of white slip detailing; with ovolo motif encircling rim; wave pattern on the baseline; with long handles. Side A: a libation scene with a female figure left, wearing local dress and holding a vessel in her right hand, holding a sickle in her left; facing an Oscan warrior wearing a plumed helmet, holding shield in left hand and carrying a pair of greaves in his right. Side B: a partially nude female standing in front of an altar table, pouring wine from a jug into a krater on a pedistel, holding an open casket in her left hand. -
Bronze Age Bronze Ewart Park Type Sword
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,775
Circa 700-500 BC. A cast bronze sword of 'Ewart Park' type, with raised flanges on the everted hilt and a series of perforations to accommodate the organic components; the blade is decorated with an incised linear border; the ricasso rounded; the blade with prominent central ridge. -
Celtic Gold Kolben Bracelet
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,290
Circa 4th-7th century AD. A heavy gold bracelet, circular in section, formed from a cast rod; penannular in plan with sharply clubbed terminals; a slight thickening of the band opposite the opening. -
Medieval Gold Cabochon Garnet Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,610
12th-13th century AD. A delicate gold hoop expanding slightly at the shoulders; the bezel hemispherical in which is set en cabochon a red gemstone (possibly garnet, ruby or tourmaline). -
Medieval Gold Cabochon Ruby Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,530
Circa 15th century AD. A plain finger ring comprising an expanding flat-section hoop rising to a quadrangular bezel containing a ruby set en cabochon. -
Medieval Bronze Civic Chamberlain's Seal Matrix
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,725
14th century AD. A seal matrix for the city of Berwick Upon Tweed, with a truncated hexagonal column; the matrix features a six-petalled flower with a superimposed flag bearing three lions passant gardant with a bear beneath; around the design the legend + [...]IIIEII CAMERARII VILLE [B]RVICI, interpreted as '(the seal of) the Chamberlain of the town of Berwick'; offered with a cast impression of the strike. -
Medieval Sir Geoffrey Luttrell Enamelled Heraldic Mount
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,140
13th-14th century AD. A very large enamelled mount bearing the arms of the Luttrell family: a bend between six martlets; around this a decorative surround of vegetation; on the reverse, a substantial attachment peg. -
Medieval Painted Fresco Panel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £47,150
15th century AD. An Italian painted fresco fragment, transposed to a textile support, the subject of the design being the death of St.Francis; the scene composed with four standing figures in discussion surrounding the holy man whose expression is peaceful and serene. -
Medieval Limestone Madonna with Orb Statuette
Sold for (Inc. bp): £10,350
Mid-14th to early 15th century AD. A delicately carved (probably in Caen stone) Rheims full-length figurine of a robed and long-haired female saint (or the Virgin Mary?) holding and looking at an orb in her right hand; set upon a square integral base, the hands showing the typical long, slender and straight fingers of the Romanesque style. -
Post Medieval 'Continew Constant' Gold Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,495
Circa 18th century AD. A heavy finger ring with a plain D-section hoop; engraved internally in a fine italic hand 'Continew constant' with 'long s'; a maker's mark comprising a capital 'E' within a heater shield. -
Post Medieval 'My gift is myselfe' Decorated Gold Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,415
17th century AD. A delicate posy ring with D-section hoop depicting on the outer face a hunting scene; on the inner face, an inscription in seriffed script 'My gift is myselfe' (with 'long s' in 'myselfe'). -
Post Medieval 'Not lost but gone before JS,' Gold Posy Ring
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,783
18th century AD. A mourning ring comprising a thick D-section hoop with external skull motif between foliate panels; the internal inscription in an italic hand 'Not lost but gone before JS' (with 'long s' in 'lost') and maker's mark.
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