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408, Lot: 276. Estimate $200.
Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Ptolemy II Philadelphos. 285-246 BC. Æ (10mm, 1.13 g, 12h). Uncertain mint in Thrace. Struck 254-253 BC. Veiled and draped bust of Arsinoe II right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt. Svoronos –; Arslan & Ozen Group III, 29–55 (O6/R9 [Ptolemy Keraunos]); SNG Copenhagen –. VF, dark green-brown surfaces, deposits. Rare.


For the reattribution of this coinage to Ptolemy II, see S. Psoma, “Numismatic Evidence on the Ptolemaic Involvement in Thrace” in AJN 20 (2008).