132, Lot: 81. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe III, wife of Ptolemy IV. 220-204 BC. Æ Chalkon (10mm, 0.92 g). Paphos mint. Diademed idealized head right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt. Svoronos 1161; Weiser 96; SNG Copenhagen 650. VF, dark green patina under some earthen encrustation.

M. Kreuzer, in his book The Coinage System of Cleopatra VII and Augustus in Cyprus, assembles evidence pointing towards a later date for these small Ptolemaic bronzes, attributing them to Cleopatra VII, and also posits the existence of a Ptolemaic mint at Paphos for this emission.