Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 914. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002. Sold For $570. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Alexander I Balas. 150-146/145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.21 gm). Tyre mint. Year 166 (147/146 BC). Diademed head of Alexander right / Eagle standing left on prow of galley, palm-branch behind right shoulder; club surmounted by TYR monogram to left, CXP and monogram right. SNG Spaer 1536-1537; Newell, "The Seleucid Coinages of Tyre", 72; cf. Houghton, CSE, 746/747. EF. ($500)