Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 376. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinöe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AR Dekadrachm (35.58 gm). Struck under Ptolemy II, circa 261-252 BC. Diademed and veiled head right; Y behind / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Svoronos 508; Troxell, Arsinoe Group 2; BMC Ptolemies pg. 44, 18; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Berry 1474. Attractively toned, near EF, nice flan. ($7500)