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GREEK COINS
Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt

Period of Ptolemy VI and Ptolemy VIII, c. 180 - 116 BC. Oktodrachm (Gold, 27mm, 27.75 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. Attractive. Some die rust on the obverse and a few modern scratches on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the Chrysos Collection, acquired in Geneva in 1980.