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Gallo-Belgic issues, Stater, series E [Ambiani], blank, rev. disjointed horse right, pellets and ornament above, pellet-in-annulet below, 5.85g (ABC 16; VA 52; S 11). Surfaces a little scuffed, otherwise very fine £200-250
Hammer Price: £300
An old 19th century free-standing wooden coin and collector’s cabinet, 55 x 38 x 71cm, comprising 25 [of 26] trays double-pierced to hold a total of 1,915 coins of various sizes, 8 drawers of various sizes and depths, all with brass pulls [some detached], double doors, lock and key; bottom drawer also with lock and key. Beading at top working loose and back a trifle warped, otherwise in sound condition and a worthy restoration project, perhaps suitable as a dealer’s cabinet; some trays...
Hammer Price: £70
A mahogany coin cabinet by Swann, 33 x 30.5 x 15cm, comprising 10 trays double-pierced to hold a total of 690 coins, brass pulls, drop front, lock (no key). In excellent order but lacking a few felts £80-100
Hammer Price: £180
A coin cabinet by St Leonards, 22.5 x 18 x 11.5cm, comprising eight trays single-pierced to hold 160 Shilling-sized coins, double doors, lock and key. Almost as new; complete with all felts £50-70
Hammer Price: £100
A coin cabinet by St Leonards, 48 x 31 x 48cm, comprising 30 trays single-pierced to hold a total of 1,060 coins, two side drawers and a deep bottom drawer, shelf at side for reference books, double doors, lock and key. In excellent order, but some trays lacking felts £150-200
Hammer Price: £220
Babelon, J., Catalogue de la Collection de Luynes, Monnaies Grecques, I, Italie et Sicile, xi + 292pp, 56 plates; II, Grèce Continentale et Iles, 171pp, plates 57-89; IV, Syrie, Égypte, Cyrénaïque, Maurétanie, Zeugitane, Numidie, 137pp, plates 118-154, Paris, 1924-36 [6]. Publishers’ paper covers, plates in boards; some scuffing to spines, otherwise a very fine group, the text volumes largely uncut £60-80
Hammer Price: £160
Boutin, S., Catalogue des Monnaies Grecques Antiques de l’Ancienne Collection Pozzi, monnaies frappées en Europe, 2 vols, Maastricht, 1979, xii + 290pp, 202 plates [2]. Publishers’ grey card covers; a fine set £50-70
Hammer Price: £35
Dalton, O.M., British Museum: A Guide to the Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities, 2nd edn, London, 1921, xii + 191pp, illustrations in text; Sabatier, J., Description Générale des Monnaies Byzantines, Graz, 1955, vii + 325, 377pp Fagerlie, Joan M., Late Roman and Byzantine Solidi found in Sweden and Denmark, ANS NNM 157, New York, 1967, xxv + 212pp, 33 plates; Whitting, P.D., Byzantine Coins, London, 1973, 311pp, illustrations in text [4]. Publishers’ bindings; last three very fine...
Hammer Price: £40
Grueber, H.A., Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum, 3 vols, London, 1970, cxxv + 594, 602, 236pp, 123 plates, djs [3]. Publishers’ red cloth; library stamps on endpapers, otherwise a fine and clean set £50-70
Hammer Price: £75
Horsley, J., Britannia Romana [1732], Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2nd edn, 1974, xxxii + 520pp, tables and index. Publisher’s blue cloth, gilt and decorated; very fine and clean, still useful £60-80
Hammer Price: £30
Jenkins, G.K., and Lewis, R.B., Carthaginian Gold and Electrum Coins, RNS SP 2, London, 1963, 140pp, 38 plates, dj; Troxell, Heidi, SNG…ANS, Part 3, Bruttium-Sicily I: Abacænum-Eryx, New York, 1975, 38 plates and accompanying text; Bedoukian, P.Z., Coinage of the Artaxiads of Armenia, RNS SP 10, London, 1978, x + 81pp, 8 plates, title page with dedication by the author, 1979; Howgego, C., Greek Imperial Countermarks, RNS SP 17, London, 1985, xi + 317pp, 36 maps, 33 plates; Macdonald, D.,...
Hammer Price: £140
Jobert, L.S., The Knowledge of Medals, London, 1697, 8 + 215pp, contents, decorated maroon half-leather, ribbed and gilt spine (Dekesel J11); Havercamp, S., Dissertationes de Alexandri Magni Numismate, Batavia, 1722, 10 + 166pp, index, engraved plates in text, original grey boards; Henfrey, H.W., A Guide to the Study and Arrangement of English Coins, 1st edn, London, 1870, Parts I-III in one, 94 + 148 + 32pp, publishers’ red cloth (Manville 460) [3]. First with front cover detached and...
£300–£400
Mattingly, H., Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol. I, Augustus to Vitellius; vol. II, Vespasian to Domitian; vol. III, Nerva to Hadrian; vol. IV, Antoninus Pius to Commodus; vol. V, Pertinax to Elagabalus (text), London, 1923-50, ccxxxi + 464, cv + 485, cxcvi + 640, cc + 964, cclxvi + 699pp, 64 + 83 + 102 + 111 plates; Carson, R.A.G., Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol. VI, Severus Alexander to Balbinus and Pupienus, London, 1962, viii + 311pp, 47 plates...
Mattingly, H., Roman Coins, London, 1928, xix + 300pp, 64 plates; Reusch, W., Der Kölner Münzschatzfund vom jahre 1909, Leipzig, 1935, 32pp, 6 plates, stamp of the Ashmolean Museum, 1935, on first verso; Caló Levi, Annalina, Barbarians on Roman Imperial Coins and Sculpture, ANS NNM 123, New York, 1952, 55pp, 17 plates; Buttrey Jr, T.V., The Triumviral Portrait Gold of the Quattuorviri Monetales of 42 BC, ANS NNM 137, New York, 1956, x + 69pp, 9 plates; Eddy, S.K., The Minting of...
Hammer Price: £65
Münzen und Medaillen AG (Basle), FPLs 239-260 [January 1964-December 1965/January 1966]; together with other Münzen und Medaillen FPLs (934), 1952-95, many years complete, some duplication [Lot]. First in green half-leather and marbled boards, gilt spine, others generally clean and a very good run £30-50
Hammer Price: £60
Patin, C., Familiæ Romanæ in Antiquis Numismatibus, Paris, 1663, xxxviii + 429pp, engraved illustrations in text (Dekesel P35, issue 1). Original brown leather; binding scruffy and front cover partly detached, internally clean £70-90
Hammer Price: £130
Pinkerton, J., An Essay on Medals, vol. 1 only, London, 1789, xlviii + 300pp, 2 engraved plates (Manville 221); Madden, F.W., History of the Jewish Coinage, London, 1864, xi + 350pp, engraved illustrations in text; Boyne, W., A Manual of Roman Coins, London, 1865, 79pp, 21 engraved plates; Head, B.V., British Museum…A Guide to the Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients, 4th edn, London, 1895, v + 128pp, 70 plates, library stamps; Head, B.V., and successors, British Museum…A...
Seager, R.B., A Cretan Coin Hoard, ANS NNM 23, New York, 1924, 55pp, 12 plates; Noe, S.P., A Bibliography of Greek Coin Hoards, ANS NNM 25, New York, 1925, 275pp; Rogers, E., The Second and Third Seleucid Coinage of Tyre, ANS NNM 34, New York, 1927, 33pp, 4 plates (2 copies); Cox, D.H., The Caparelli Hoard, ANS NNM 43, New York, 1930, 17pp, 2 plates; Hill, G.F., Notes on the Ancient Coinage of Hispania Citerior, ANS NNM 50, New York, 1931, 196pp, 36 plates; Weber, Shirley H., An Egyptian...
Seyrig, H., Notes on Syrian Coins, ANS NNM 119, New York, 1950, 35pp, 2 plates (2 copies); Robinson, D.M., A Hoard of Silver Coins from Carystus, ANS NNM 124, New York, 1952, 62pp, 6 plates; Caley, E.R., Chemical Composition of Parthian Coins, ANS NNM 129, New York, 1955, 104pp; Noe, S.P., Two Hoards of Persian Sigloi, ANS NNM 136, New York, 1956, 44pp, 15 plates; Cox, D.H., Coins from the Excavations at Curium, 1932-1953, ANS NNM 145, New York, 1959 (2 copies); Thompson, Margaret, The...
Stevenson, S.W., and others, A Dictionary of Roman Coins, London, 1889, viii + 920pp, library stamps at front; Pearce, J.W.E., Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. IX, Valentinian I-Theodosius I, London, 1968, xliv + 334pp, 16 plates; Sutherland, C.H.V., Coinage in Roman Imperial Policy 31 BC-AD 68, New York/London, 1971, xi + 220pp, 17 plates, dj; Mattingly, H., and Sydenham, E.A., Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. I, Augustus to Vitellius, 279pp, 16 plates; vol. III, Antoninus Pius to Commodus, xviii +...
Hammer Price: £95
Strada, J. de, Epitome Thesauri Antiqvitatum, hoc est, impp. rom orientalium et occidentalium Iconum, ex antiquis Numismatibus quam fidelissime delinatarumrientalium et occidentalium Iconum, ex antiquis Numismatibus quam fidelissime deliniatarum, 2nd edn, Zurich, 1557, 36 + 335pp, 391 portrait medallion woodcuts in text (Dekesel S72). Decorated boards, probably 17th century, ribbed spine; title page with annotations in Latin and the date 1623, minor annotations in the same hand in text,...
£3,000–£4,000
von Sallet, A., Münzen und medaillen, Berlin, 1898, 224pp, illustrations in text; Bernhard, O., Pflanzenbilder auf griechischen und römischen münzen, Zurich, 1924, 47pp, 5 plates; Vermeule, C.C., A Bibliography of Applied Numismatics, London, 1956, 172pp, dj; Madden, F.W., History of Jewish Coinage, New York, 1967, lvii + 350pp, engraved illustrations in text; Hall, E.T., and Metcalf, D.M., Methods of Chemical and Metallurgical Investigation of Ancient Coinage, RNS SP 8, London, 1972,...
Stone Age (c. 4,000–2,000 BC), flint arrowheads, several barbed, hand axes (3), and an axe hammer; together with worked implements, one possibly a scraper [18]. Varied state £70-90
Hammer Price: £350
European Bronze Age, Axe, c. 1,000–800 BC, socketed and looped, biconical mouth with three ribs below, straight cutting edge, 87 x 40mm. About very fine with dark green patina £80-100
Artefacts, Luristan, bronze Adze, 9th-7th cent. BC, slender blade decorated with incised lines, issuing from the mouth of a lion, tubular shaft hole decorated with four horizontal ridges and four boar-headed butt spikes, 200 x 55mm. Superb quality and condition £200-300
Hammer Price: £900
Artefacts, South Italian, Hydria, 4th cent. BC, two horizontal handles, main body decorated with ribbing and painted with the profile head of a lady of fashion, foliate tendrils in orange slip around, narrow neck with wide rim, 220 x 150mm. Some colour restoration to rim, otherwise intact and with minimal chipping to the design £150-200
Artefacts, Roman, Key handle, 1st cent. AD, bronze socketed in the form of a recumbent lion emerging from a lotus bud devouring a boar’s head, lion with finely detailed mane and face, part of the iron key shank remains, 90 x 20mm (Mills RB 248). Very fine with green patina, iron encrusted £150-200
Hammer Price: £410
Artefacts, Roman, Silvered-bronze pin with a decorated terminal, late 1st cent. AD, hand holding a pearl, shaft bent at 45 degrees, 105mm (Mills RB 178). Very fine £40-60
Artefacts, Roman, Bronze rosette and fantail brooches (6), 1st-2nd cents. AD, various types, including an Æsica type with repousse decoration (Hattatt 800) and a fantail with Celtic scroll pattern [6]. Fine to very fine; three intact with pins £60-80
Hammer Price: £260
Artefacts, Roman, Bronze brooches with makers names (5), 1st-2nd cents. AD, aucissa (2, one a cruder British copy); knee variant with uterefelix (Hattatt 484); another inscribed fibuaexreg lagitiense in two panels; bow type, dimin inscribed on foot [5]. Mostly fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £190
Artefacts, Roman, Silver brooches (6), all 1st-4th cents. AD, P-shaped bow type; crossbow with onion shaped terminals and decorated with silver beading; triple dolphin Pannonian type; small dolphin missing the foot; Kraftig profilierte types (2) (Hattatt 336, 760 760) [6]. Fine to very fine £150-200
Artefacts, Roman, Bronze brooches of various types, all 2nd cent. BC (8), zoomorphic and skeumorphic, axe brooch (Mills RB 161), running dog, leopard, dog chasing hare, lion bow type with a bull’s head between its paws (Mills RB 101), T-shaped with animal seated on bow, openwork plate and a knee variant with tendrils on each side (Mills RB 96) [8]. Fine to very fine £150-200
Hammer Price: £550
Artefacts, Roman, Bronze owl plate brooch, 2nd cent. BC, hooked beak and round orange enamelled eyes, body with folded wing that would have been enamelled (Hattatt 1154). Fine with green patina, extremely rare; part of the pin remains £100-150
Artefacts, Roman, Enamelled bronze lunular plate brooch, 2nd cent. AD, central strip of yellow and red cells, blue and red panels each side (Mills RC 115; Hattatt 605). Very fine with green patina; complete with pin and head loop £120-150
Artefacts, Roman, Jewellery, 1st-4th cents. AD, silver finger ring with bezel inscribed tot; bronze rings (7); bronze bracelet; silver bracelet; intaglios of glass and carnelian (10) [20]. Varied state £100-150
Hammer Price: £320
Artefacts, Roman, Bronze plate brooches (5), all 2nd cent. AD, including swimming duck (Mills RB 148; Hattatt 1166), bird in flight (Mills RB 149), etc [5]. Average fine; traces of enamel survive, one with pin £100-150
Hammer Price: £400
Artefacts, Roman, Bronze zoomorphic brooches (2), both 2nd cent. AD, continental types of fine style, seated hound, head turned to the side; dog biting a hare [2]. About very fine; both with traces of silvering £80-100
Hammer Price: £370
Artefacts, Roman, Bronze zoomorphic plate brooches (6), including horse and rider, goat, horse, hare, rabbit and eagle catching hare [6]. All with some extremities missing, though mostly fine £80-100
Artefacts, Roman, enamelled bronze brooches (6), all 2nd cent. AD, hinge-headed type with flat bow of triangular shape with orange and green enamel (Hattatt 992); two enamelled plate brooches, one with a triskele; a sandal with orange enamel (Hattatt 1139); crescent shape (Mills RC 116); chatelaine brooch of umbonate form with traces of enamel [6]. Fine to very fine £150-200
Hammer Price: £450
Artefacts, Roman, Gilt-bronze brooches (2), 2nd-3rd cents. AD, disc plate with five raised spokes (Hattatt 1216); knee variant with semi-circular head in an incised pattern [2]. Heavily gilded, very fine £60-80
Hammer Price: £120
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