100, Lot: 67. Estimate $100. Sold for $1302. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 150-145 BC. Æ 21mm (7.49 gm). Quasi-municipal issue of Antioch mint. Dated SE 163 (150-149 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus standing facing, head left, holding filleted wreath; monogram in left field, GXR in right. Cf. SNG Spaer 1496 (Cyrrhus); BMC Seleucid Kings pg. 56, 63 corr. (G-I); SNG Copenhagen -. VF, dark grey-green patina.