Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 565. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I (Balas). 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.90 gm, 2h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 164 (149/8 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram to inner right, date and monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1427 var. (monogram in exergue); SMA 145. EF, minor die breaks on obverse. ($300)