Sale: Nomos 8, Lot: 205. Estimate CHF6000.  Closing Date: Monday, 21 October 2013.  Sold For CHF7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. Oktadrachm (Gold, 26mm, 27.73 g 11), Alexandria, 253/2-246 BC. Veiled head of Arsinoe to right, wearing stephane, with horn of Ammon below her ear and with the tip of a lotos-tipped scepter visible behind the top of her head; behind her neck, Ι. Rev. ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ Double cornucopiae filled with fruits and bound with fillet. SNG Copenhagen -. Svoronos 471. Attractive, but with a few minor marks. About extremely fine.

From an American collection.