52, Lot: 63. Estimate $200. Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCID KINGS of SYRIA, Alexander I Balas. 150-145 BC. AR Didrachm (6.36 gm). Tyre mint. Dated year 164=149-148 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on galley's prow, palm-branch behind right shoulder, club surmounted by monogram before; DXR (date) and monograms in fields. Cf. SNG Spaer 1530 (Tetradrachm); Newell, ANSNNM 73, 64. VF, light porosity. Scarce. ($200)

From the Thomas B. Lesure Collection. Ex. Classical Nnuismatic Group Auction 32, (December 7, 1994), lot 200; NFA Summer Mail Bid Sale (June 27, 1986) lot 434.