Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1034. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.53 g, 1h). Seleukeia on the Tigris mint. Struck circa 150-145 BC. Diademed head right / BASILEWS ALEXANDROU QEOPATOROS EUERGETOU, Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram in exergue. Le Rider, Suse 312 and pl. XXIX, 312, 2 (same obv. die); SNG Spaer 1586; Houghton 1004 = Houghton & Le Rider, "Un trésor de monnaies hellénistiques trouvé près de Suse," RN 1966, 90 (this coin). VF, toned, double struck. Exceptional portrait. ($1000)

From the Arthur Houghton Collection, 1004. Ex Susiana, 1965 hoard (IGCH 1806).