221, Lot: 416. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (29mm, 27.80 g, 11h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 253/2-246 BC. Veiled head of the deified Arsinoe, with tip of horn of Ammon visible below ear, wearing stephane; Λ to left, lotus-tipped scepter behind / Filleted double cornucopia. Troxell, Arsinoe, Group III, p. 44, pl. 7, 4 (same obv. die); Svoronos 476; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, a few light marks.