236, Lot: 290. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. Æ (18mm, 5.07 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck 150-146 BC. Head right, wearing Boeotian helmet / Nike standing left, holding wreath and palm; [grain ear] to outer left, monogram to inner left. SC 1790.4; HGC 9, 899. VF, earthen green patina. Rare.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.