Watch List notes:

SICILY. Katane. Circa 405-403/2 BC. Hemidrachm (Silver, 14 mm, 1.79 g, 6 h). Head of Silenos, balding, bearded and with pointed ears, to left, wearing wreath of ivy. Rev. KATANAIΩN Bull butting to right; below, fish to left. Basel 340 (this coin). Mirone 97 = Rizzo pl. XIV, 22. SNG ANS -. SNG Ashmolean 1713. Very rare. A very attractive example with a severe and majestic head of Silenos. Light doubling on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.


From the Kleinkunst Collection and from the collection of A. D. Moretti, Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998, 340.