Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1076. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinöe II, wife of Ptolemy II Philadelphos. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.76 g, 12h). Alexandria mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 253/2-246 BC. Diademed and veiled head right; lotus sceptre behind head; Q to left / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Troxell, Arsinoe, Transitional to Group 3, p. 43 and pl. 6, 3; Svoronos 460; SNG Copenhagen 134; BMC 9; Pozzi 3221 (same obv. die). EF, small nick on jaw. ($10,000)

Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXVI (Summer 2001), no. 68.