Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 491. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinöe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.09 gm). Struck circa 261/0-253/2 BC. Diademed and veiled head right; E behind / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, eagle standing left on thunderbolt; X between legs. Svoronos 445; Troxell, Arsinoe, Group 2, pl. 5, 6 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen -. Nice VF, obverse porosity, reverse scratches, hairline flan crack. ($1500)