Sale: CNG 63, Lot: 724. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 May 2003.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinöe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.83 gm). Struck under Ptolemy VI or VIII, circa 180-116 BC. Diademed and veiled head right, lotus-tipped sceptre over shoulder; K behind / Double cornuacopiae bound with fillet. Svoronos 1498; SNG Copenhagen 322. Superb EF. ($7500)

Ex Leu 77 (11-12 May 2000), lot 396. 

The commemorative coinage of Arsinoe II experienced a resurgence at the Cypriote mints under Ptolemy V. This revival was continued by his successors, who supplemented the Cypriote issues with a large gold coinage, consisting of oktadrachms, tetradrachms and didrachms, from Alexandria.