SELEUKID EMPIRE. Alexander I Balas. 152-145 BC. Æ (19mm, 5.47 g, 1h). Quasi-municipal issue. Apameia on the Axios mint. Dated SE 163 (150/49 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus standing left, holding helmet and scepter; monogram and ΓΞP (date) to left; c/m: palm frond in rectangular incuse. SC 1804b; HGC 9, 904. VF, dark green patina, earthen encrustation. 





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REF: BB-7-233