Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 584. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinöe II, wife of Ptolemy II Philadelphos. Died 270 BC. AR Dekadrachm (35.48 gm, 12h). Alexandria mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, circa 253-246 BC. Diademed and veiled head right; BB behind / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Svoronos 938; Troxell, Arsinoe, Transitional and Group 3, pg. 43 and pl. 6, 6; BMC Ptolemies pg. 44, 20; SNG Copenhagen -. Near EF, attractively toned. Choice flan. ($5000)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Dr. J.S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 976.