CNG 102, Lot: 602. Estimate $750. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 14.05 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 165 (148/7 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond in background; to left, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, EΞP (date) above monogram. SC 1835.4a; HGC 9, 883. EF, lightly toned, hairline flan crack. Struck with fresh dies.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, August 2008 (inv. no. G10538).