Sale: Triton V, Lot: 557. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Alexander I Balas . 150-145 BC. Æ 20mm (7.48 gm). Municipal issue of Apamaea, year 163 (150/149 BC). Diademed head of Alexander right / APAMEWN, Zeus standing left, holding Corinthian helmet in right hand, sceptre in left; date GXR and monogram left. SNG Spaer 1494; Houghton, CSE, 443; SNG Copenhagen 276 var. (monogram); Laffaille -. Near EF, black patina with a trace of earthen encrustation around devices. ($200)