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Seleucid, Alexander I, Balas, Elephant reverse!

Æ 14mm/1.9gm         Antioch on the Orontes mint, circa 149-147 BC.

Con/ Struck on a short flan, otherwise, Good Very Fine; crisp portrait of Dionysus, sharp image of the elephant; glossy black patina with earthen fill.

Obv/ Head of youthful Dionysus right, hair wreathed with ivy.

Rev/ [BAΣIΛEΩΣ] AΛEΞANΔPOY; elephant walking left

Ref/ SC 1791.1; SNG Spaer 1477-9