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English: Sicily, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC.
AR Drachm (4.30 g, 2h).
Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch
Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left on his knee, tail behind; N-A-XI-ON around; all within shallow concave circular incuse.
Italiano: Sicilia, Naxos. Circa 461-430 a.C.
AR Dracma (4,30 g, 2h).
Testa barbata di Dioniso dx, che indossa tainia decorata con ramo di vite
Sileno, nudo e barbato, accucciato verso sinistra, con kantharos nella mano destra, coda dietro; N-A-XI-ON intorno; il tutto entro cerchio incuso.
Cahn 55.3 (V40/R46) = E.J. Seltman, “Prototypes monétaires siculo-grecs,” RIN 1898, pl. VII, 6 (this coin); Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 13; SNG Lloyd 1151 = Weber 1467; Basel 385; SNG Lockett 841 = Pozzi 508; Jameson 674; de Luynes 1063; McClean 2467 (all from the same dies).
Good VF, attractive old toning, some die rust. Extremely rare, and among the finest known.
Ex Barry R. Feirstein Collection (Part I, Numismatica Ars Classica 39, 16 May 2007), lot 16; Edward Herbert Bunbury Collection (Part 2, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 17 June 1896), lot 365; Lord Northwick Collection (Sotheby & Wilkinson, 5 December 1859), lot 312.
Source http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=152828
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