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Obolos 11

8 December 2018
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Unique and unpublished provincial issue

Starting Price: 3000 CHF
Hammer Price:  5005 CHF
Lot 382

PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Ptolemy V Epiphanes, 205-180 BC. Mnaeion or Octodrachm (Gold, 26 mm, 27.58 g, 12 h), struck in the name of the deified Arsinoe II, Paphos, year 12 = 193 BC. Veiled head of Arsinoe to right, wearing stephane, with horn of Ammon below her ear and with the tip of a lotos-tipped scepter visible behind the top of her head. Rev. ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ Cornucopiae filled with fruits and bound with fillet; Π below cornucopia; to right, LIB. Apparently unpublished. Cf. DCA 38 var. (but of Ptolemy VI and with a differing date). Svoronos - (but cf. p. 186, 1319 and pl. XLIV, 16 for a similar issue of year 13). Extremely rare, apparently unique. Some bangs and scratches, otherwise, very fine.

Online bidding closes: 8 Dec 2018, 19:11:00 CET Current Date & Time: 20 Apr 2024, 13:01:32 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:5005 CHF by spiegs91 (5 bids)
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