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Very Rare Arsinoe Tetradrachm - Alpha Issue

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 874. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. 
Sold For $2450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.85 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 261/0-253/2 BC. Veiled head right, wearing stephane and horn of Hathor; lotus scepter behind head; A to left / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt. Troxell, Arsinoe, Group 2, p. 43 and pl. 4, 5 (same obv. die as illustrated coin); Svoronos 421; SNG Copenhagen 139-140 var. (letter). Good VF, minor porosity. Very rare.