375, Lot: 66. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.18 g, 1h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 166 (147/6 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow, with palm frond over shoulder; club surmounted by Tyre monogram to left; to right, ςΞP (date) above monogram. SC 1835.5a; HGC 9, 883; DCA 123. Near EF.

From the Dennis Rider Collection of the Coins of Tyre. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 914.