108, Lot: 20. Estimate $300. Sold for $310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 150-146/145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.87 gm). Antioch mint. Diademed head right / Zeus seated left, holding Nike and sceptre. SNG Spaer 1394; SMA 164-171 var. (letter or monogram in exergue); Houghton 183 var. (D in exergue). Good VF, attractive portrait. Apparently very rare with no controls in the exergue.