342, Lot: 346. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 16.35 g, 1h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros enthroned left; cornucopia to outer left, date [and monogram] in exergue. SC 1781.3; HGC 9, 875a; DCA 118. VF, toned, a little off center.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, 11 July 1989.