Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1079. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $8200. 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 (27.68 g, 12h). Alexandria mint. Struck under Ptolemy VI-VIII, circa 170-116 BC. Diademed and veiled head right; lotus sceptre behind head; K to left / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Troxell, Arsinoe, p. 67, 8; Svoronos 1498; SNG Copenhagen 322; BMC 36. Superb EF, light cabinet tone, slight die shift on obverse. ($7500)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.