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A spectacular coin with an illustrious provenance!

Price: 22500 CHF
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Lot 75

PTOLEMAIC KINGS OF EGYPT. Arsinoe II, wife of Ptolemy II, died 270 BC. Dekadrachm (Silver, 33 mm, 35.52 g, 12 h), Alexandria, struck under Ptolemy II, circa 261/0-253/2 BC (?). Veiled head of Arsinoe to right, wearing stephane; ΘΘ behind, tip of lotus-tipped scepter in background. Rev. ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ Double cornucopia bound with fillet. Svoronos 943. Troxell, Arsinoe p. 44 (this coin among the 4 examples noted). Extremely rare and of fine style with attractive light toning. A few minor marks, otherwise, good very fine.

Ex Palombo 19, 12 December 2020, 57, the Richard Cartwright Collection, Münzhandlung Basel 4, 1 October 1935, 1010, the V. Luneau Collection, Platt 27 March 1922, 891, and from the Chabenat Collection (part II), Bourgey 14-15 December 1911, 183.

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