Triton XIX, Lot: 327. Estimate $25000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II Philadelphos. Died 270/268 BC. AV Half Mnaïeion – ‘Tetradrachm’ (21.5mm, 13.88 g, 11h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy VI–VIII, circa 180-116 BC. Head right with ram’s horn, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped scepter in background, K to left / APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia, grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet. Svoronos 1500; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 40; Boston MFA –; Consul Weber 4511; Hirsch 1829; Gulbenkian 1085 (same obv. die); Hunterian p. 391, 5; Noeske –. Superb EF. Rare.

Ex Leu 45 (26 May 1988), lot 292 (pedigree to Ars Classica XIII is erroneous); Hess-Leu (27 March 1956), lot 338.