Watch List notes:

Sicily. Naxos. c. 460/50 BC. Drachm, 4.35g (9h). Obv: Head of Dionysos right, wearing an ivy wreath in his hair. Rx: NAXION Naked and bearded Silenos squatting, facing, inclined slightly to the left, and turning his head towards the drinking vessel which he holds in his right hand, meanwhile supporting himself by his left hand resting on the ground. His animal tail curls behind him and beneath him to the left. Cahn 56.3 (V41/R47) = Rizzo, pl. XXVIII,14 (this coin). Boston 306, SNG Lloyd 1152, and Jameson 676 (all from the same dies). Of superb early classical style, with the usual die flaw in its early stages on the obverse, the reverse exceptional. Toned. aEF

Ex The New York Sale XXX, 9 January 2013, lot 25. Ex M & M 54, 26 October 1978, lot 107. Ex Walter Niggeler, Bank Leu/Munzen und Medaillen, 3-4 December, 1965, lot 127. Ex Merzbacher II, 15 November 1910, lot 241. Ex Carlo Stiavelli, Santamaria, 6 April 1908, lot 178. Ex Franz Merkens, J. Hirsch XIV, 27 November 1905, lot 191. Ex Theodor Prowe, Egger, 28 November 1904, lot 217. Ex Cahn, 25 February-2 March 1901. Ex Walcher von Molthein, Rollin & Feuardent 1895, lot 478