Ancient Gold
Lot 3339 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold
Estimate $3,800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $3,700
EGYPT, Kingdom of Ptolemy II, (282-246 B.C.), gold tetradrachm, (13.834 grams), Alexandria mint, obv. conjoined busts to right of Ptolemy II diademed and draped and Arsinoe II diademed and veiled, above **ADELFWN*, shield behind, dotted border, rev. conjoined busts to right of Ptolemy I diademed and wearing aegis and Berenike I diademed and veiled, above **QEWN*, dotted border, (S.7790 [£1400], Sv.604 [Pl.14, 19-21], SNG Cop. 133, BMC 4-5, Hazzard C1035). Attractive good very fine and rare.
Ex Spink & Son, London, Numismatic Circular, April 2001 (No.GKO181). The issue has also been attributed to Ptolemy III (Sear), but more recent scholarship (SNG Cop. and Hazard) places it under Ptolemy II. These coins were valued at fifty silver drachms (Hazard p.105].
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