Watch List notes:

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 415-403 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 1.54 g, 12h). Horned head of river god Assinos left, wearing ivy wreath / Silenos, nude and ithyphallic, squatting facing half-right, head left, on rocks, holding kantharos and two pipes. Cahn 115 (V73A/R93); Campana 23; SNG ANS 528; SNG Lloyd 1160; SNG München 764; SNG Delepierre 595; BMC 23; Basel 387 = Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 22; Boston MFA 310 = Warren 278; Jameson 683; Hunterian 11; McClean 2476 (all from the same dies); HGC 2, 991. Dark find patina. VF.


From the Collection of an English Queen's Counsel. Ex Gorny & Mosch 237 (7 March 2016), lot 1138.