Attractive Portrait of Arsinoë

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 419. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoë II, wife of Ptolemy II. Died 270 BC. AV Oktadrachm (27.81 g, 11h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy V, circa 205-180 BC. Veiled head right, wearing stephane, lotus scepter behind, horn of Ammon below ear; K behind / ARSINOHS FILADELFOU, double cornucopia bound with fillet. Svoronos 1242; cf. SNG Copenhagen 321. EF, tiny nick on edge.

Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 492; Classical Numismatic Group 29 (30 March 1994), lot 390.