2nd century BC. A bronze ring with broad plaque, intaglio profile bust of Berenike II; modern gold restoration to the hoop. Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 69, for type. 23.92 grams, 28.93mm overall, 20.19mm internal diameter (approximate size British N, USA 6 1/2, Europe 13.72, Japan 13) (1"). From a private New York collection; previously in a private Connecticut, USA, collection; acquired in the 1980s. Berenike II was ruler of Cyrenaica from 267 BC – 221 BC and co-regent in Ptolemaic Egypt from 246 BC to 222 BC as the wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes. [A video of this lot is available on TimeLine Auctions website]