ELECTROTYPES, SICILY. Naxos. Circa 430/20-415 BC. Electrotype 'Tetradrachm' (24mm, 13.73 g, 12h). Unsigned British Museum electrotype by Robert Ready or his sons. Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding up kantharos in right hand and resting his left hand on his knee, tail hanging to left below; large ivy vine with leaves to left, NAΞION to right. Head, Guide Period II C, 30. As made.
From the Mercury Group Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81 (20 May 2009), lot 1472 (part of).