Sale: Triton V, Lot: 558. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SYRIA, Seleukid Kings. Alexander I Balas . 150-145 BC. Æ 26mm (13.64 gm). Ekbatana mint. Diademed head of Alexander right / BASILE-WS ALEXAND-ROU right, QEOPATRO[S] [EU]ERG[ETOU] left, elephant with rider walking right. Le Rider, Suse, pl. lxvii, 27-28; SNG Spaer -; Houghton, CSE, -; SNG Copenhagen -; Laffaille -. VF, black patina. Very rare, only two other examples known. ($400)