Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 545. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 150-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.48 gm, 1h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 163 (150/149 BC). Diademed head right / BASILEWS ALEXANDROU QEOPATOROS EUERGETOU, Zeus seated left, holding Nike in right hand, lotus-tipped sceptre in left; cornucopiae to outer left, GXR (date) and monogram in exergue. SNG Spaer 1418 var. (monogram); SMA 135-136 var. (same); Houghton 174 var. (same). EF, bright surfaces. ($500)