98, Lot: 57. Estimate $300. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 150-146/145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 15.36 gm). Antioch mint. Dated year 163 (150/149 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus seated left, holding Nike in right hand, sceptre in left; cornucopiae and Q outer left, date GXR in exergue. SNG Spaer 1418 var. (monogram in exergue, same obverse die); SMA 137. EF, recently cleaned, minor porosity.