Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 876. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $6600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.71 g, 11h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 253/2-246 BC. Veiled head right, wearing stephane and horn of Hathor; lotus scepter behind head; I to left / Double cornucopias bound with fillet. Troxell, Arsinoe, Group 3, p. 44 and pl. 7, 2; Svoronos 471; SNG Copenhagen 134 var. (letter). Near EF, minor field marks, trace of underlying luster. Extremely rare iota issue.