Watch List notes:

SICILY. Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. Litra (Silver, 12 mm, 0.74 g, 1 h). NAXI Head of bearded Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath. Rev. Bunch of grapes on vine with six leaves. Cahn 74. SNG ANS 521. SNG Copenhagen 491-2. Nicely toned and of lovely style. Struck from slightly worn dies and with minor doubling on the obverse and some flan cracks, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 17, 14-16 August 2021, 134 and previously from a Swiss collection, formed before 2005.