Watch List notes:

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. Fourrée Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.07 g, 12h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and ithyphallic, squatting facing on rocks, head left, holding kantharos in right hand and thyrsos in left; ivy branch to left. Cahn 150 (V92/R121); Campana p. 37, fig. 2 = SNG ANS 531; cf. HGC 2, 984 (for prototype); SNG München 762 (same dies); McClean 2473 (same dies). Fine, toned, rough surfaces, edge chips. Rare.


Ex Oslo Mynthandel 58 (21 April 2007), lot 1179.

This interesting contemporary forgery is well attested, with Campana noting 20 examples total (16 of which were known to Cahn) that were struck from these dies.