Watch List notes:

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 430/20-415 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.25 g, 7h). 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 behind; large ivy vine with grape bunches to left, NAΞION to right; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 102 (V66/R84); HGC 2, 984; SNG Lloyd 1156; SNG Spencer-Churchill 47; BMC 19; Bement 419; Pozzi 511 (all from the same dies). VF, attractive light toning, a few tiny marks. Well centered.


Ex Classical Numismatic Group 39 (18 September 1996), lot 283; Schweizerischer Bankverein 38 (12 September 1995), lot 58.