Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 386. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.76 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 253/2-246 BC. Veiled and diademed head right, wearing stephane; Θ to left, lotus-tipped scepter behind / APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia bound with fillet. Troxell, Arsinoe, Transitional to Group 3, p. 43 and pl. 6, 3 (same obv. die as illustrated coin); Svoronos 460; SNG Copenhagen 134; BMC 9; Noske -; Boston MFA -; CNG 76, lot 875 (same obv. die). Good VF, light graffito in field on reverse.