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Both sides of an irregularly shaped silver-gray coin with relief decoration on each side.　

Decadrachm of Ptolemy II, for his wife Arsinoe II, Alexandria

r. 285-246 BCE

Ptolemy II Philadelphos

Greek

Obv.: Veiled head of Arsinoe II Philadelphos diademed wearing stephane with ram’s horn around her ear and lotus-tipped scepter over shoulder Rev.: Double cornucopiae

Silver

Ptolemaic period

Coins