Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 493. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinöe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AR Dekadrachm (35.35 gm). Struck circa 253/2-246 BC. Diademed and veiled head right, lotus-tipped sceptre over shoulder; HH behind / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Svoronos 942; Troxell, Arsinoe, Group 3, pl. 7, 3; SNG Copenhagen -. Toned, good VF, obverse fields slightly smoothed. ($4000)