Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 455. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 150-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.13 gm). Sidon mint. Dated year 166 (147/146 BC). Diademed head right / ALEXANDROU BASILEWS, eagle standing left, palm behind right shoulder; CXR (date) left; SIDW and aplustre right. SNG Spaer 1520; Houghton 715; Rouvier, "Numismatique des villes de la Phénicie: Sidon," in JIAN 5 (1902), pg. 124, 1232. Lightly toned EF. ($1000)