Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1032. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Drachm (4.33 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 163 (150-149 BC). Diademed head right / BASILEWS ALEXANDROU QEOPATOROS [E]UERGETOU, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos; to outer left, cornucopiae [above control mark]; GXR (date) in exergue. Cf. SMA 139-141; SNG Spaer 1421 (same obv. die); cf. Houghton 173; cf. Jameson 1713 (same obv. die). EF, light iridescent toning, hairline flan crack, obverse struck a little softly. ($300)

From the Harry Strickhausen Collection.