CNG 88, Lot: 472. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.15 g, 12h). Ptolemaïs (Ake) mint. Date SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond behind; monogram and ΓΞP (date) to left, monogram and P to right. SC 1842.3; HGC 9, 884. Good VF, obverse softly struck. Rare.