Greek Coins
Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy VI Philometor, 180-145 BC or Ptolemy VIII Euergetes, 145-116 BC. Octodrachm, in the name of Arsinoe II, Alexandria circa 180-116, AV 27.89 g.
Description
Diademed and veiled head of the deified Arsinoe II r.; in field l., K. Rev. ΑΡΣIΝΟΗΣ – ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ Double cornuacopiae filled with fruit and bound with fillets.
References
Svoronos 1498 and pl. 51, 18
SNG Copenhagen 322
Boston 2293
Condition
In exceptional state of preservation, almost invisible marks, otherwise virtually as struck and almost Fdc