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1500-1100 B.C. Leaf-shaped blade with flared shoulder and two attachment rivets; moulded midrib flaring to two shallow channels; narrow lentoid-se...

Italy, 1534-1538 A.D. Large rectangle with linear upper border and three pendant medallions: St. Peter with book and key, angels supporting the co...

Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.C. With broad rounded butt, D-shaped in section, some cortex in place; old inked '3' beneath a natural cavity...

CIRCA 2100 B.C. From the temple of Ningirsu at Tello (Girsu) during the Second Dynasty of Lagash; inscribed with columns of cuneiform text:'For Ni...

Eocene Period, 58-36 million years B.P. A large Diplomystus sp. fossil fish on a matrix slab. 8.95 kg, 59 cm (23 1/4 in.). From a Lincolnshire, ...

1066-1087 A.D. BMC type ii. Obv: crowned bust facing with fillet each side and +PILLEM REX legend. Rev: pellet and crescent ended voided cross wit...

1862 AD. Bust A, Calcutta mint. Obv: profile bust with VICTORIA EMPRESS legend. Rev: incuse and reversed impression of obverse. Good very fine. Sc...

Circa 60-50 B.C. Obv: wreath design with faces. Rev: horse right with arm above, pellet-in-annulet left and eight-spoked wheel below. Fine; obvers...

Circa 1st century B.C.-1st century A.D. Carved with thick rim to each end, ogee above the base and double band beneath the mouth; two facing lion ...

3rd-4th century A.D. A spatha with double-edged blade of Osterburken-Kemathen Type, fullers with damask pattern (rosette damask technique B.II.I.2...

871-899 A.D. Obv: profile bust right with +AELBRED REX legend. Rev: lunettes broken at edges with HEBECA for moneyer Hebeca between MON and ETA.Ve...

127-151 A.D. Kushan standard, Bactria, main mint (probably Balkh), late phase. Obv: ÞAONANOÞAO KA-NHÞKI KOÞANO, Kanishka I standing facing, head l...

c. 885-915 A.D. Obv: top-barred A with +SCEA DN legend. Very fine, hairline cracks. Rev: small cross with +ANRIC.AI legend. S.961, N.483. 1.32 gr...

c.710-c.760 A.D. Obv: female centaur left with palm fronds to sides. Rev: whorl of four wolves head with tongues meeting at centre. Good fine. Sca...

13 B.C. Struck by C Sulpicius Platorinus. Obv: CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right. Rev: C SVLPICIVS PLATORIN, Augustus and Agrippa seated side-by-si...

813-814 A.D. Obv: Kalima in three lines; Qur'an IX, 33 in outer margin. Rev: continuation of Kalima in three lines; date formula in outer margin: ...

276-282 A.D. Rome mint. Obv: IMP PROBVS PF AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust left, holding spear forward and shield decorated with scene of profect...

Circa 8-41 A.D. Obv: CVNO on tablet surrounded by wreath border. Rev: CAMV on tablet below seated griffin. Extremely fine, a stunning example. Ver...

c.54/3-33/2 B.C. Seleukeia on the Hedyphon mint. Obv: diademed and draped bust left, wearing long beard and torque; to right, eight-rayed star abo...

c.25 B.C.-10 A.D. Obv: wreath with opposing crescents at centre, teardrops emanating from crescents, TASC in angles. Rev: winged capricorn, VIR be...

197 A.D. Rome mint. Obv: bust right. Rev: MVNIFICENTIA AVG, elephant walking right. Commemorates the games also mentioned in the Historia August...

c. 8-41 A.D. Obv: winged bust right, CVNO before. Good very fine, a pleasing strike with good detail. Scarce. Rev: sphinx seated left, TASCIO b...

680-710 A.D. Obv: profile bust right with TIC before. Rev: standard with TOTTI within and symbols around. Very fine with a very nice light brown t...

c.710-c.760 A.D. Obv: facing Woden head with nine bosses around. Rev: pecking bird with pellets. Very fine. S.801A, N.103, M. p.326, no.288. 0.86 ...

Circa 20-5 B.C. Obv: lifelike male head left with beaded beard and droopy moustache, within interlaced vine border. Rev: winged horse (Pegasus) wi...

1526-1544 A.D. Second coinage, bust D. Obv: profile bust with HENRIC VIII D G R AGL Z FRANC legend and 'arrow' mintmark. Rev: long cross over arms...

1526-1544 A.D. Second coinage. Obv: facing bust with 'W' left and 'A' right for Archbishop William Warham with H D G ROSA SINE SPIA legend with 'c...

1554-1558 A.D. Obv: profile bust with PHILIP Z MARIA D G REX Z REGIN legend and 'Lis' mintmark. Rev: long cross over arms with POSVIMVS DEVM ADIVI...

c. 655-675 A.D. Pada Type III. Obv: diademed bust right, legend around. Rev: cross with annulets in angles within beaded inner circle, ?NVSPN?I le...

A.H. 407 (1016 A.D.). Obv: Mahmud ibn Sebuktegin, floral patterns in fields. Rev: Mehmood mint, Ghazna, citing Abbasid caliph al-Qadir billah, flo...

213-208 B.C. Antioch ad Orontem mint. Obv: diademed head right. Rev: BASILEWS ANTIOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting ...

c.8-41 A.D. Obv: bust left with hair spiked, CAMVL before. Rev: seated victory right holding up object, CVNO below. Extremely fine, a well struck ...

Circa 25 B.C.-10 A.D. Obv: TASC on tablet. Rev: horse left. Very fine, reverse interestingly offstruck. S. 226; VA 1786; BMC 1647-50. 1.39 grams...

Dated 1645 A.D. Obv: large crowned bust extending to bottom of coin, IIII behind. Rev: two scrolls and Oxford monogram over Declaration, date belo...

Eastern France, circa 1480 A.D. Wooden carved archway with high-relief image of St Veronica in floor-length robe standing on a domed base holding ...

2nd century B.C. Discoid mirror with recess to obverse and reverse, each with a looped handle attached to two domed lugs, concentric rings and ste...

Circa 10th-11th century A.D. With pattern-welded double-edged blade, showing well-defined shallow fullers and wide cutting edges, the fullers occu...

Circa 14th-15th century A.D. and later. Drum-shaped body with narrow base, two vertical flanges running from the rim and between them two D-shaped...

1300-1200 B.C. With tapering square-section body, bulbous finial formed as two addorsed male masks, loop handle to each lateral face, trumpet-shap...

Azerbaijan, 1st millennium B.C. Hollow-formed figure of a donkey laden with packs on a heater-shaped base; vents to each side to accept axles, hol...

Circa 2000 B.C. Plano-convex in section with broad face, incuse profile image of a lamassu (winged bull with a human head) with pellets and object...

Circa 18th century A.D. Hollow-formed figure standing in contrapposto pose, wearing a chiton and draped himation with decorative borders; the hair...

Late Pliocene-early Pleistocene Period, circa 5.3 million-60,000 years B.P. A near complete example retaining many of the animal's teeth; mounted ...

END OF AMAR-SIN'S REIGN, 2047-2038 B.C. Pillow-shaped clay tablet with dense rows of cuneiform text in two columns to each face, (79 lines in tota...

5th-6th century A.D. A spatha with a double-edged parallel-sided blade, battle nicks to both cutting edges; long tang with a fastening rivet in si...

Circa 604-562 B.C. A rectangular section with fourteen columns of cuneiform text mentioning the foundation of a temple by Nebuchadnezzar II, trans...

Circa 12th-11th century B.C. With incised text to the midrib on one face, less well-defined characters to the reverse. Cf. Röllig, W., ‘Onomastic ...

5th-6th century A.D. Comprising: ellipsoid loop with hollowed underside; tongue with D-shaped shield bearing stylised facing mask among pellets, w...

Catalonia, circa 1400-1420 A.D. Group of four quatrefoil plaques, each with a hole to the end of each arm for attachment and detailed enamelled im...

Circa 7th century A.D. Bifacial lead plaque with figurative decoration: obverse with Saint George, nimbate, on his horse killing a fallen foe with...

10th-11th century A.D. Double-edged cutting sword of Petersen Type S or T variant with tapering blade bearing some deep battle scars; boat-shaped ...

5th-7th century A.D. Comprising a double-edged parallel-sided blade showing battle nicks on both cutting edges, medium length tapering tang; lento...

Jin Dynasty, early 13th century A.D. A complete suite of rectangular iron plates to form a protective coat; the plates provided with a series of h...

Uruk III, c. 3200-3000 B.C. Terracotta pillow-shaped tablet with grid to each broad face, each cell with an impressed image and a corresponding nu...

Uruk III, c. 3200-3000 B.C. Terracotta pillow-shaped tablet with grid to each broad face, each cell with an impressed image and a corresponding nu...

Late 2nd century A.D. Modelled with arms held behind the back, legs astride and left knee bent, head angled upwards over the right shoulder; the t...

8th century A.D. Comprising a D-shaped plate with acanthus-leaf motif in low-relief, beaded wire band above the hinge, kidney-shaped rectangular-s...

Late 2nd-early 1st millennium B.C. The hilt with conical openwork hollow-cast pommel, grip decorated with horizontal grooves and twisted zig-zag p...

4th-5th century A.D. Plano-convex seal with intaglio crouching Gopatshah bull with a man's head, crowned, and small wing to his shoulder; Pahlavi ...

3rd Dynasty of Ur, circa 2036 B.C. Pillow-shaped tablet with columns of pictograms to two broad faces and one edge. 27.6 grams, 40 mm (1 1/2 in.)...