Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 149Auction date: 2 December 2024
Lot number: 474

Price realized: 2,750 CHF   (Approx. 3,098 USD / 2,959 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


Ptolemy II Philadelphos, 285 – 246
In the name of Arsinoe II. Tetradrachm, Alexandria, circa 263-254, AR 28 mm, 13.77 g. Diademed and veiled head of Arsinoe II r., wearing stephane; in l. field, B. Rev. [AP]ΣINOHΣ – ΦIΛAΔEΛΦ[OY] Eagle, closed wings, standing l. on thunderbolt; between the legs, X. Svoronos 429. SNG Copenhagen 139. Troxell, Arsinoe, Group 2, pl. 4, 6. T. Faucher, Egyptian Hoards I: The Ptolemies, 318 (this coin). CPE 376.
Very rare. About very fine

Ex NFA Mail Bid 14 December 1989, 818 and CNG e-396, 2017, 254 sales. Privately purchased from Spink on 28th April 1981. From the Syria 1981 hoard (CH 7. 90; 8. 306; 8. 311; 8. 344)

Estimate: 1500 CHF