Watch List notes:

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21mm, 14.58 g, 9h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath / Silenos, nude and ithyphallic, squatting half-left, holding kylix in right hand and supporting himself with his left, tail behind; N-AXI-ON around. Cahn 54 (V39/R45); Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 12; HGC 2, 983; SNG Lloyd 1150; SNG Lockett 840 = Pozzi 506; BMC 7–8; Basel 384; Bement 418; Jameson 673; Kraay & Hirmer 6 (all from the same dies). Toned, some find patina remaining, heavy scratches, roughness, and some tooling. Fair, reverse better.


From the B.G. Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 46 (2 April 2008), lot 830.