Only Two Examples Known to Troxell

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1357. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $4750. 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). Tyre mint. Struck under Ptolemy III, dated RY 2 (246/5 BC). Veiled head right, wearing stephane; lotus-tipped scepter in background / APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia bound with fillet; B (date) to lower left, mint monogram and Θ below. Troxell, Arsinoe, 15-6, pl. 9, F (same dies); Svoronos 1012; SNG Copenhagen -; Noeske -; Boston MFA -. Near VF, marks in fields. Extremely rare, only two examples noted by Troxell.