AV Octodrachm in the name of Arsinoë Ptolemy VI Philometor (180–145 BC) or Ptolemy VIII Euergetes (145–116 BC). In the name of Arsinoë II. AV Octodrachm (28 mm, 27.72 g), Alexandria 180-116. Obv. Diademed and veiled head of the deified Arsinoe II right; in left field, K. Rev. ΑΡΣΙΝΟΗΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΟΥ, Double cornucopiae filled with fruit and bound with fillets. Svoronos 1499 and pl. 51, 18; SNG Copenhagen 322; Boston 2293. Fields somewhat smoothed, and possibly traces of mounting, otherwise, good very fine.
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