Potosi, Bolivia, ca. 1st half 17th century AD. This type of coins is also known as cob coins, pieces of eight or pirate money

Body perfectly preserved, including the elaborate original painting. 25 cm high, very impressive vase.

Impressive vase, decorated with an elaborate female head. Body perfectly preserved incl. original white, red and yellow paint.

Paestan or Campanian. The scientifically confirmed age is 2460 years. Rare in this condition.

8th - 7th century BC, Middle till Late Geometric.

Posthumous issue, Ekbatana mint.

Seleukos was one of the hetairoi of Alexander the Great. The biga on this coin type is much rarer than the quadriga.

Almost extremely fine, the head of Herakles in beautifully high relief. From an old German private collection, acquired in the 1980s.

Nice depiction on the dark glass paste. It shows the horses of the chariot at full gallop.

The white banded glass paste and shows a scene with nymph or maenad putting her arm around a satyr's neck.

The roman intaglio shows a standing god. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.

Gold jewellery with plastically modeled heads of a lion. The elaborate gold sheet head is typical for hellenistic earrings.

Overall great impression with excellently preserved decoration.

VOTIS / XXX / MVLTIS / XXXX in wreath, C IA in exergue. Constantinopolis mint, 11th officina, 351 - 355 A.D. Wonderful dark patina.

Roman light red glass paste from the Professor Brosch collection of ancient glyptics. Possibly showing Heracles and Apollon.

An ancient intaglio from Roman times made of nice orange glass paste. It shows a person leaning on a sword or rudder stock.

Attractive white banded orange glass paste. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.

From a German private collection, acquired 1982 at Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany. The bird possibly depicts a dove, a popular symbol among the early Christians, symbolizing the Holy Spirit.

The obverse is showing a wreathed head of Saturn, prora on the reverse. Great dark brown patina.

Bare head on obverse, legend around SC on reverse. Ex Gerhard Hirsch auction 141, 1984.

Perfectly preserved incl. the decoration with leaf bands and blossom medallion in high relief.

Fine to very fine condition, beautiful patina. Amphora and vine leaf, Paleo-Hebrew insciprios "year 3" and "The freedom of Zion".

Impressive vase showing a young man and a sitting woman, possibly from the workshop of the Truro Painter.

Three-dimensional figurine with high level of detail, very nicely preserved. Around 300 BC, Magna Graecia. Published, from the Leo Mildenberg collection.

Obverse: Wreathed head of nymph Histiaia right, reverse: Nymph Histiaia seated on galley right.

Nice white-banded, orange-brown glass paste. It shows the spirit of nature in extasy.

Flask with voluminous body and base ring from the Late Roman period. A piece from the Dr. Teubner collection.

The gem stone from the Late Roman Imperial period is engraved in linear style. It shows a standing person in a cloak.

The piece of gold jewellery could be worn as a pendant on the ear or on a necklace. The relief shows a most famous cult statue, the Ephesian Artemis. The medallion was made between the 1st and 3rd century.

The glass paste depicts a scene from the battle of the 300. Othryades declares the victory of Sparta. He writes it on the shield of a slain enemy with blood from his own wounds.

An ancient intaglio from Roman times made of nice violet glass paste and shows a scene between two persons.

An ancient intaglio from Roman times made of nice orange-brown glass paste. From the Professor Brosch collection of engraved gems.

Well centered, beautiful tone. The reverse shows the emblems of the pontificate.

The vase shows the fight of Herakles against a centaur, and on the other side a sitting woman with a satyr. Very delicate object, painting of exquisite workmanship for an apulian vase.

A brooch of the so-called Kraeftig Profiliert type. From the Roman Imperial period. An impressive piece made of beautifully dark patinated bronze.

Gold jewellery with plastically modeled head of a bird of prey or dolphin. The elaborate gold sheet head is typical for hellenistic earrings.