Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 997. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $2700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Ptolemaic Kings. Ptolemy II. 285-246 BC. AV Octadrachm (27.86 gm). Diademed and veiled head of Arsinöe II right, tip of a lotus sceptre visible above head; K behind / Double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Svoronos 475; Troxell, ANSMN 28 (1983), Group 3, pl. 7, 3 (same obverse die). VF. ($3000)