Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 456. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 150-145 BC. AR Drachm (4.13 gm). Ekbatana mint. Diademed head right / [BA]SILEWS ALEXANDROU QEOMATOROS EURGETOU, Apollo seated left on omphalos, holding arrow and bow; monogram in outer left field. SNG Spaer 1589 var. (monogram); Houghton 1270 var. (same obverse die; same); Le Rider, Suse pl. 67, 22 var. (same). EF, attractive portrait. Apparently unpublished with this monogram. ($400)