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CNG 93, Lot: 614. Estimate $7500.
Sold for $8900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II Philadelphos. Died 270/268 BC. AV Mnaïeion – “Oktadrachm” (27mm, 27.65 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy VI-VIII, circa 180-116 BC. Head right, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped scepter in background, K to left / APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia, grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet. Svoronos 1242, 1374, and 1498–9; SNG Copenhagen 321–2; Noeske –; Boston MFA 2293 and 2298. EF, indications of prior mounting, light traces of polishing.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 855.