349, Lot: 151. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.24 g, 12h). Laodikeia in Phoenicia (Berytos) mint. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / Eagle standing left on palm branch; to left, ΓΞΡ (date) above monogram; trident to right. SC 1824.2; HGC 9, 881; DCA 121. Good VF, toned, a few light scratches and marks, struck slightly off center.

Ex Glendining’s (4 June 1992), lot 92.