Watch List notes:

PTOLEMAIC KINGS of EGYPT. Arsinoe II Philadelphos. Died 270/268 BC. AV Mnaieion – "Oktadrachm" (26mm, 27.75 g, 12h). Alexandreia mint. Struck under Ptolemy II, circa 253/2 BC. Head right, veiled and wearing stephane; lotus-tipped scepter in background, Θ to left / APΣINOHΣ ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOY, double cornucopia, grape bunches hanging at sides, bound with fillet. Svoronos 460; Troxell, Arsinoe, Transitional to Group 3, p. 43 and pl. 6, 2-3 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 134; Noeske 39 (same obv. die); Hirsch 1808. Near EF, underlying luster, usual small die break in left field on obverse.


Ex Triton XV (3 January 2012), lot 1312 (sold for hammer $12,000, but not paid).