Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4583 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,800
EGYPT, Kingdom of, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, (285-246 B.C.), silver decadrachm, (31.48 g), 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 Decades Collection and Noble Numismatics Sale 75 (lot 1872), Sale 57 (lot 1014) and Sale 45 (lot 2079).
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