138, Lot: 104. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AR Dekadrachm (36mm, 32.82 g). Struck under Ptolemy II, circa 253/2-246 BC. Diademed and veiled head of Arsinöe II right, lotus-tipped sceptre over shoulder / Double cornucopiae bound with fillet. Cf. Svoronos 938ff; Troxell, ANSMN 28, Group 3. Fine, fields heavily smoothed, removing the control marks behind the head, some tooling on portrait, corrosion on edge.