Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 583. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $6750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinöe II, wife of Ptolemy II Philadelphos. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.73 gm, 12h). Alexandria mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, 253-246 BC. Diademed and veiled head right; lotus sceptre behind head; Q to left / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Svoronos 460; Troxell, Arsinoe, Transitional and Group 3, pg. 43 and pl. 6, 3; BMC Ptolemies pg. 43, 9; SNG Copenhagen 134. Good VF, light graffiti in left reverse field, light scratch in obverse field. ($7500)