CNG 88, Lot: 465. Estimate $500. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.24 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Date SE 164 (149/8 BC). Diademed head right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond behind; ΔΞP (date) to left, ΣIΔΩ above aphlaston to right. SC 1830.3; HGC 9, 882. EF, toned, struck a little off center.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 7 (22 February 2002), lot 166.