Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 950. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.77 g, 1h). Uncertain mint in northern Syria. Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left. SNG Spaer -; Houghton 559 (this coin). Good VF, toned, a couple areas of minor pitting under tone.

From the Arthur Houghton Collection, 559.