256, Lot: 155. Estimate $200. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270/268 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.70 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. Svoronos 421; SNG Copenhagen 139-40 var. (letter). Fine, porous. Very rare.