362, Lot: 205. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.18 g, 12h). Sidon mint. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / Eagle standing left; with palm frond over shoulder; ΓΞP (date) to left, ΣIΔΩ above aphlaston to right. SC 1830.2; Rouvier 1228; HGC 9, 882; DCA 122. EF, bright surfaces beginning to tone, some obverse die wear.

Ex CNG Inventory 961499 (August, 2013).