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278, Lot: 98. Estimate $100.
Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Ephesos (as Arsinoeia). Circa 290-281 BC. Æ (16mm, 4.17 g, 11h). Aristaios, magistrate. Veiled bust of Arsinoe II right / Stag kneeling left, head right; astragalos to upper right. Head, Ephesus p. 44; BMC 72. VF, dark green patina.


From the R. F. Whorton Collection.

Lysimachos made himself master of Ephesos in 295 BC and shortly thereafter changed the city's name to Arsinoeia in honor of his wife, the daughter of Ptolemy I Soter. After the death of Lysimachos in 280 BC, Arsinoë married her half brother Ptolemy Keraunos and finally her full brother Ptolemy II Philadelphos. She became the first Ptolemaic ruler to enter the Egyptian temples as "temple-sharing goddess," and was revered by the later Ptolemies.