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421, Lot: 326. Estimate $100.
Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Drachm (17.9mm, 3.95 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Undated issue, struck 149/8-148/7 BC. Diademed head right / Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow and resting hand on grounded bow; two monograms to outer left, star in exergue. SC 1785.7 (this coin referenced); HGC 9, 887a. Good VF, toned, flan crack, struck slightly off center. Very rare issue with star in exergue.


From the MNL Collection. Ex RJM Collection (CNG Inventory 453345, NYINC 2017); Classical Numismatic Group 37 (20 March 1996), lot 664 (part of).