Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 150Auction date: 2 December 2024
Lot number: 709

Price realized: 3,500 CHF   (Approx. 3,942 USD / 3,766 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. Decadrachm, Alexandria, circa 249, AR 34 mm, 32.30 g. Diademed and veiled head of Arsinoe II r.; in l. field, BB. Rev. APΣINOHΣ – ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY Double cornucopiae filled with fruit and bound with fillets. Svoronos 938. Troxell p. 44. SNG Copenhagen 136 (this obverse die). CPE 344.
Rare. Lovely old cabinet tone, areas of corrosion on reverse and on edge,
otherwise very fine / good very fine

Ex Ira & Larry Goldberg sale 96, 2017, 1907. Privately purchased from F. Kovacs in 1986. From the Hanbery collection.

Estimate: 4000 CHF