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ROMAN CROSSBOW BROOCH VIEW 16 viewsLarge complete Roman crossbow brooch (92mm) dating from circa A.D.320 - 400.
Stilicho has taken the time out from running the Empire to model the brooch (highlighted) for us, it would have been worn as shown in the inset.
Typology: Keller 4a; Pröttel 3/4a; Soupault III1
Distribution: Upper Danube, NE Gaul
*Alex
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ROMAN CROSSBOW BROOCH VIEW 217 viewsLarge complete Roman crossbow brooch (92mm) dating from circa A.D.320 - 400.
This photo is taken from another viewpoint, although this angle looks more "natural" to us, to the Romans the brooch would be upside down.
Typology: Keller 4a; Pröttel 3/4a; Soupault III1
Distribution: Upper Danube, NE Gaul
*Alex
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SCOTTISH ART DECO MEDICAL SERVICE MEDAL.4 viewsCupro-nickel St Andrew's Ambulance Corps of Scotland Voluntary Medical Service medal with seven bars.
Obverse: Head and shoulders of a female figure facing right, her hands holding a lighted oil lamp in allegory of Florence Nightingale, “the lady with the lamp”.
Reverse: LONG AND EFFICIENT SERVICE, Saltire cross (Cross of St. Andrew) superimposed on a Geneva cross.
This medal, attributed to the recipient, A. GIBSON, on the edge, is on it's original ribbon, with seven silvered St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps of Scotland service bars.
This medal, which is of striking Art Deco design, was instituted in 1932 and was awarded by the St. Andrew’s Ambulance Corps of Scotland for a minimum of 15 years’ exemplary service, a bar bearing a St. Andrew’s cross being awarded for each further five years’ service. On it's own this medal is quite scarce and one with seven bars very rare.
*Alex
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EDWARD I English AR Penny. Struck in London A.D.1279 - 1281.3 viewsObverse: EDW REX ANG DNS HYB. Crowned bust of Edward I facing within circle of pellets.
Reverse: CIVITAS LONDON. Long cross dividing legend into quarters, trefoil in each quarter of inner circle.
Undated Penny, type 1c. Edward I's recoinage began in 1279 and this production run ended in 1281.*Alex
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