ARSINOE II GOLD MNAIEION OCTADRACHM – ISSUE OF ALEXANDRIA EX BERLIN MUSEUM AND HESS 1907 SALE PUBLISHED IN OLIVIER & LORBER – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK PTOLEMAIC COIN (Inv. 18753)

$45,000.00

47 (18753). EGYPT. PTOLEMAIC KINGDOM. ARSINOE II PHILADELPHUS, 277-270/268 BC.
Gold mnaieion (octadrachm), 27.71 g, 28 mm. Posthumous issue of Alexandria, struck under Ptolemy II, dated Year 20 (251/0 BC).
Obv. Diademed and veiled head of deified Arsinoe II right, with horn of Ammon and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped scepter in background above head; K (date) behind. Rev. APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia with grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet.
CPE 390; Svoronos 475; J. Olivier and C. Lorber, “Three gold coinages of third-century Ptolemaic Egypt,” RBN CLIX (2013), no. 244, dies 1/20 (this coin listed); H. Troxell, “Arsinoe’s Non-Era” in ANSMN 28 (1983), Group 3, p. 44 and pl. 7, 3 (same obv. die); Boston MFA 2268 (same obv. die); BMC 10 (same dies); Pozzi 3223 (same obv. die).
Ex CNG Triton XXI, 1/9/2018, lot 540; ex Berlin Museum Duplicates, Adolph Hess, 10/7/1907, lot 1468.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, an attractive octadrachm once in the collection of the Berlin Museum with over a century old pedigree.