Watch List notes:

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 14.10 g, 11h). Laodikeia in Phoenicia (Berytos) mint. Dated SE 166 (147/6 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY, eagle standing left on palm frond; to left, CΞP (date) above monogram; trident to right. SC 1824.4; Sawaya 37–44 var. (D14/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Rouvier –; CSE –; SNG Spaer 1508–9 (same obv. die); HGC 9, 881. EF, toned. Well struck from sharp dies. Rare.


From the RR Collection.