CNG 99, Lot: 338. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.35 g, 12h). Tyre mint. Dated SE 163 (150/149 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond behind; to left, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, ΓΞP (date) above HP monogram. SC 1835.2b; Rouvier 1858; HGC 9, 883; DCA 123. EF.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 90 (23 May 2012), lot 666.