414, Lot: 278. Estimate $100. Sold for $65. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.06 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; to outer left, cornucopia above ΗΓ monogram; ΓΞP (date) in exergue. SC 1785.3e; HGC 9, 887a; DCA 127. VF, lightly toned, a few light cleaning scratches, minor horn silver.