SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 14.20 g, 12h). Phoenician standard. Tyre mint. Dated SE 166 (147/6 BC). Diademed and draped bust right / Eagle standing left on prow left; palm frond in background; to right, club surmounted by Tyre monogram; to right, ςΞP (date) above monogram. SC 1835.5a; HGC 9, 883; DCA 123. Lightly toned, underlying luster. Superb EF.
Ex Roma XIX (26 Match 2020), lot 606; Gorny & Mosch 265 (14 October 2019), lot 493.