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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 47. Estimate $7500. 
Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. 
Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 420-403 BC. AR Didrachm (8.43 g, 1h). Youthful head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath; olive leaf and berry behind, NAΞIΩN to right / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-right, head left, holding kantharos in right hand and thyrsos in left, tail behind; ivy branch to left, ithyphallic herm to right. Cahn 110 (V73/R91); Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 26; SNG Lloyd 1158; SNG ANS 526; SNG München 763; SNG Lockett 844; de Luynes 1068; Boston MFA 309; Jameson 681; Hirsch 514; Warren 276 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, a few light scratches under tone.