102, Lot: 36. Estimate $300. Sold for $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 150-146/145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.60 gm). Antioch mint. Dated year 163 (150/149 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus seated left, holding Nike in right hand, sceptre in left; cornucopiae outer left, GXR (date) and monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1417 var. (different monogram, same obverse die); SMA 135 (same dies); Houghton 174 var. (different monogram, same obverse die). Good VF, toned.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 540.