CNG 85, Lot: 492. Estimate $500. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.21 g, 1h). Uncertain mint, possibly associated with Antioch. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; K to inner left. SC 1797; HGC 9, 875b; CSE 2, 455 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a couple spots of encrustation. Rare.