Biblical & Jewish Coins
Lot 1872 Session 6 (9.30am Thursday) Biblical & Jewish Coins
Estimate $750
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SOLD $1,000
EGYPT, Kingdom of, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, (285-246 B.C.), silver decadrachm, (31.48 grams), Alexandria mint, obv. veiled head of Arsinoe to right, wearing stephane, behind uncertain letter, rev. double cornucopiae, bound with fillet, around **[AR]SINOHS FILADEL[FOU]*, (cf.S.7770, cf.Svoronos 477, cf.BMC 15). Oxidation and porosity on obverse at edge, and with some broken surfaces on left side of obverse, otherwise nearly very fine and rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 45 (lot 2079) and Sale 57 (lot 1014).
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