328, Lot: 224. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 16.56 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Dated SE 164 (149/8 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Nikephoros seated left; monogram to inner left, ΔΞP (date) and monogram in exergue. SC 1782.3c; HGC 9, 875a; DCA 118. Good VF, lightly toned, three small parallel scratches in right obverse field, obverse die crack in hair and die break on neck.

From the Demetrios Armounta Collection.