Triton XIX, Lot: 291. Estimate $750. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.16 g, 12h). Laodikeia in Phoenicia (Berytos) mint. Dated SE 164 (149/8 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, eagle standing left on palm frond; to left, ΔΞP (date) above monogram; trident to right. SC 1824.3; Sawaya 34–5 (D12/R2); Rouvier –; HGC 9, 881; SNG Spaer 1507 (same dies). EF, toned, die break on obverse.