Two Lustrous Arsinoe Oktadrachms
Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 875. Estimate $7500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Sold For $11100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.70 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 253/2-246 BC. Veiled head right, wearing stephane and horn of Hathor; lotus scepter behind head;
Q to left / Double cornucopias bound with fillet. Troxell,
Arsinoe, Transitional to Group 3, p. 43 and pl. 6, 3 (same obv. die as illustrated coin); Svoronos 460; SNG Copenhagen 134. Near EF, minor field mark on obverse, scratches along upper edge of coin, trace of underlying luster.