421, Lot: 331. Estimate $75. Sold for $45. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. Æ (20.5mm, 8.61 g, 1h). Quasi-municipal issue. Apameia on the Axios mint. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus standing left, holding helmet and scepter; monogram and ΓΞP (date) to left; c/m: palm frond in rectangular incuse. SC 1804a; HGC 9, 904. Fine, dark green to black patina with earthen highlights/deposits.
From the MNL Collection. Ex Rudnik Numismatics Inventory, no. G3956.