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CNG 84, Lot: 760. Estimate $6000.
Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoë II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Mnaieion – “Oktadrachm” (27mm, 27.66 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 253/2-246 BC. Veiled and diademed head right, wearing stephane; Θ to left, lotus-tipped scepter behind / Double cornucopia bound with fillet. Svoronos 460; Troxell, Arsinoe, Transitional to Group 3, p. 43 and pl. 6, 3 (same obv. die as illustrated coin); SNG Copenhagen 134. Good VF, a couple nicks on portrait.