Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 992. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $9750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.70 g, 12h). Struck under Ptolemy VI-VIII, circa 170-116 BC. Veiled and diademed head right, wearing stephane; K to left, lotus-tipped scepter behind / Double cornucopia bound with fillet. Troxell, Arsinoe, p. 67, 8; Svoronos 1498; SNG Copenhagen 322. Good VF, minor die rust.