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Ancient & Hammered Coins (& Artefacts)
1488
13th/14th Century lead vesica Seal Matrix with the Latin
legend +SIGILL':ALEXANDRI:AMFREI: surrounding
£40 - £60
1489
Aethelred II silver penny, Helmet Type, Spink 1152,
obverse reads:- +AEDELRAED REX ANGLO, reverse
reads:- +EADMVND MO LVND, London Mint
moneyer Eadmund, light peck marks each side and lightly
crinkled, round and well centred, VF
£300 - £325
1490
Aethelstan silver penny, Crowned bust right / Small
Cross Type with no mint name, obverse reads:-
+AEDELSTAN REX ['AE' ligulate, 'D' with thorn],
reverse reads:- +FOLCRAED MONETA, ['AE'
ligulate], Spink 1094, full, round, well centred, just a little
'dink' on extreme edge, above bust, very dark even tone,
a sharp strike with nice portrait, VF/GVF
£1000 - £1250
1491
Agrippa copper as, struck by Caligula in honour of his
grandfather, Rome 37-41 A.D., Bust left / Neptune
standing to left, Sear 1812, slightly rough surfaces, GF
£45 - £55
1492
Ancient Greek bronze minors, 6 identified with tickets
and 6 others, average F [12]
£20 - £25
1493
Ancient Greek silver drachm of Sinope [a colony of
Miletos], c.450 B.C., obverse:- Crude head of eagle left
[with silver test cut carried out in antiquity], reverse:-
Quadripartite incuse square, Sear 3688, VF
£60 - £80
1494
Ancient Greek silver drachm, c.400 B.C., of Apollonia
Pontika, Thace [a colony of Miletos], obverse:- Anchor,
'A' to left, Crayfish to right, reverse:- Head of Apollo,
facing [seem to be Sear 1657 but present piece seems a
drachm, Sear 1655var.], sharply struck, EF/GVF
£60 - £80
1495
Ancient Greek silver half-drachm of Thrace,
Cherronesus, Forepart of lion right, looking back /
Square divided into four compartments, one of which
contains an X and dot, with on old ticket, VF
£25 - £30
1496
Ancient Greek silver obel of Campania, Phistelia, 380-
350 B.C., obverse:- Young male head with no neck,
three-quarter face to right, reverse:- Oscan legend,
Barleycorn between mussel-shell and dolphin, Sear 316,
exceptionally well struck, GEF
£130 - £150
1497
Ancient Greek silver stater of Soloi, Cilicia, 425-400 B.C.,
Amazon kneeling left with bow and quiver / Bunch of
grapes, see Sear p.509, with old ticket, with large test cut,
F
£60 - £70
1498
Ancient Indian pieces, silver x 15, bronze x 14, 12 of the
silver pieces being punch marked ,grade various [29]
£25 - £30
1499
Anglo-Gallic silver Grand blanc of Henry VI, King of
France 1422-1450, Mint of Rouen, mm. Leopard [Lion
Passant] 1422-1449, obverse:- h'ERICVS above French
and English Royal Arms, reverse:- Latin Cross, lis and
lion each side, h'ERICVS on groundline, Spink 8166,
full, round, well centred, GVF
£150 - £170
1500
Anglo-Saxon styca of Northumberland wt.1.18g.,of
Wigmund Archbishop of York 837-849/50 A.D.,
moneyer Coenred, Spink 870, EF
£80 - £90
1501
Antoninus Pius copper as Mint Rome or possibly Britain
154-155 A.D., reverse reads:- [BRI]TANNA COS IIII S
C, Britannia seated on a rock to the left, in attitude of
dejection, Sear 4296, dark, slightly rough surfaces, clear,
F
£30 - £40
1502
Armenia, Levon I silver tram, edge a little ragged, NVF
together with a ditto but a Coronation silver tram,
January 1199, NVF/GF, scarce, sold in packets with full
details [2]
£25 - £30
1503
Augustus 27 B.C.- 14 A.D., silver tetradrachm of Seleucis
and Pieria, Antiochia ad Orontem, Syria, obverse:-
Laureate bust of Augustus, right, reverse:- City Goddess
seated right, on rock, holding palm-branch, River-God
Orontes swimming right, at her feet, in field two
monograms, legend = year 31 of the Actian Era = 1 B.C.-
1 A.D., time of the birth of Christ, Sear 106, EF
£450 - £480