Choice K Type Oktadrachm

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 564. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.81 g, 11h). Struck under Ptolemy VI-VIII, circa 170-116 BC. Diademed and veiled head right; lotus scepter behind head; K to left / Double cornucopia bound with fillet. Troxell, Arsinoe, p. 67, 8; Svoronos 1498; SNG Copenhagen 322. EF, underlying luster, usual area of flat strike at high point on reverse.