Triton XVII, Lot: 420. Estimate $10000. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II Philadelphos. Died 270/268 BC. AV Mnaieion – “Oktadrachm” (27mm, 27.81 g, 11h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy III, circa 246-242/1 BC. Head right, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped scepter in background, Ξ to left / APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia, grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet. Svoronos 489; Troxell, Arsinoe, Group 4, p. 44 and pl. 8, 3–4 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; Du Chastel 293 (same obv. die). Near EF, lustrous, a few light cleaning marks in fields.