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Rare: Stephen Lozenge Sceptre Type Penny. York, ornamental type. A unique variant with the left facing bust. Crowned bust left holding sceptre surmounted by lozenge with pellet, +STIEN (retrograde) with ornaments. R. Saltire fleury over cross pattee, ornaments in place of legend. 1.02g. 20mm. Recorded with the Early Medieval Coin Corpus as, EMC: 2024.0082. Ref: N.920 variant.

Merovingian Tremissis. Maastricht. Circa 7th century AD. Gold, 1.32g. 13mm. TRECECTO FIT, diademed and draped bust right. R. HAINOMIRES MO, Latin cross on a flat base, with a globe and pellets below. The moneyer appears to be unrecorded or a miss spelling.

Iron age zoomorphic spout in the form of a boars head. The head is well moulded with prominent lenticular eyes and small pricked ears. Large tusks are evident either side of the mouth, which has a circular opening within a short tubular projection. Found near Corby, Northamptonshire. 32mm x 18mm x 18mm, 22.35g

Edward IV Gold Ryal, London. Light Coinage, 1464-1470. 36mm, 7.71g. EDWARD DI GRA REX AnGL Z FRAnC DnS IB, Crowned king in ship with rose on hull, holding sword and shield displaying Royal Arms, flag with E at stern. R. IhC AVT TRAnSIEnS PER MEDIVM ILLORVM IBAT. Central sunburst in cross with lis at end of each arm and, crowned lion passant in angles, all within a tressure of eight arcs with trefoils in spandrel. Mint mark crown. Ref: N.1549. S.1950.

Eadbald of Kent Gold Shilling (‘thrymsa’). Early England AD 616-640. Gold, 1.29g. [NV]? AL[D /REG], around a diademed bust, right. R. +DORO[VERNI]S, around a cross pattee on a globe, beaded inner-circle. Canterbury mint. Ref: Article by T. Abramson. https://britnumsoc.files.wordpress.com/2023/04/351-a-second-canterbury-gold-shilling-of-eadbald.pdf

Henry VIII. 1509-1547. Gold Angel First coinage. Tower (London) mint mark crowned portcullis (without chains on rev.). Struck circa 1513-1526. (crowned portcullis) ҺЄnRIC VIII DI GRΛ RЄX ΛGL Z FRA, Archangel Michael slaying the dragon to right with spear terminating in cross crosslet. R. PЄR CRVCЄ TVΛ SΛLVΛ nOS XPЄ RЄDЄ, ship bearing shield and cross, Һ and rose flanking cross. Ref: Schneider 563; North 1760; SCBC 2265. From the New Horizons Collection. Ex J. Eric Engstrom (Triton XX, 10 January 2017), lot 1570; Coin Galleries (21 February 1990), lot 439. 28mm. 5.17g.

David I Scottish Penny. 1124-1153 AD. Crowned bust right with sceptre, + DAVIT REX. R. Cross fleury, single pellet in angles. Moneyer, Hugo at Roxburgh?. Silver, 1.33g. 22mm. Ref: S.5007.

17th Century Gold Finger Ring. Circa, 1650 AD. Gold, 2.08 grams. 21.61 mm. UK ring size, L. US size, 5 3/4. A D-shaped band with decorated shoulders that separate in to two outward scrolled arms. The two arms on each side of the band grasp a heart-shaped frame that encloses a raised square bezel set with a large rock crystal stone. Ref: Scarisbrick & Henig, Finger Rings. p.61. fig.1. From an old UK collection, purchased sometime before 1987.

'Lord John St John of Bletsoe' silver hawking vervel inscribed IOHN LORD St IOHN. Found at Bletsoe, Bedfordshire and reported as potential treasure, recorded with the PAS as BH-6AF8AB which states:

Iron Age Zoomorphic Bronze Cosmetic Mortar. Circa, 50 BC-50 AD. Copper-alloy, 81.37 mm. An exceptional quality Late Iron Age centre-looped cosmetic mortar. Formed of a crescent-shaped bow decorated on each side with two punched dot triangular panels. The terminals are in the form of devolved, zoomorphic heads with upturned beaks and large round eyes, Very much like a Duck. Each terminal is joined to the centre loop by an openwork strut. REF: Jackson, R, 2010, p. 79, no. 36 & p. 123. From a private Norfolk collection.