Triton XVIII, Lot: 785. Estimate $10000. Sold for $12500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II Philadelphos. Died 270/268 BC. AV Mnaïeion – ‘Oktadrachm’ (28mm, 27.80 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, circa 253/2-246 BC. Head right with ram’s horn, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped scepter in background, I to left / APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia, grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet. Svoronos 471; Olivier & Lorber 150, dies 2/4 (this coin); Troxell, Arsinoe, Group 3, p. 44 and pl. 7, 2 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen –; Noeske –; Boston MFA Supp. 320; de Luynes 3562 (same obv. die); Triton XVI, lot 593 (same obv. die); NFA XX, lot 819 = Leu 36, 211 (same dies). Near EF, lustrous, a few minor marks. Rare with I control, 29 coins known to Lorber.

Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1315.