Triton XVIII, Lot: 162. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Hemidrachm (12mm, 2.12 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Radiate and diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] AΛEΞANΔPOY, Apollo standing left, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; grain ear to outer left, Φ to inner left. SC 1786.2; SMA –; HGC 9, 891; Sunrise 203 (this coin). VF. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Peus 393 (31 October 2007), lot 292 (conserved since).