Watch List notes:

GREEK COINS
EGYPT

Period of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII, c. 180-116 BC. Oktodrachm (Gold, 29mm, 27.91 g 12), Alexandria, c. 134 (?). Head of Arsinoë II to right, wearing diadem, stephane and ram's horn, and with a lotos-tipped scepter behind her head; in field to left, Κ. Rev. ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ Double cornucopiae bound with fillet; border of dots. Du Chastel 298 (there dated to 134 BC). SNG Copenhagen 322. Svoronos 1498. Superb, lustrous, most attractive and of an astounding freshness. A spectacular example. Very, very minor scratch on the obverse, otherwise, virtually as struck.

From the Chrysos Collection, acquired in Geneva in 1980