Triton XVIII, Lot: 161. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.11 g, 12h). Antioch on the Orontes mint. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / [BAΣ]IΛE[ΩΣ] [A]ΛEΞANΔPOY ΘEOΠATOPOΣ EYEPΓETOY, Apollo Delphios seated left on omphalos, testing arrow in his right hand, left hand on bow set on ground to right; to outer left, cornucopia above monogram; ΓΞP (date) in exergue. SC 1785.3a; SMA 140; HGC 9, 887a; DCA 127; Sunrise 202 (this coin). Near EF, toned, a little off center.

From the Sunrise Collection, purchased from Tom Cederlind.