Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 143. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Litra (0.59 g, 5h). Wreathed head of Dionysos right / Grape bunch on vine. Cahn 74 (V54/R62); SNG ANS 521; SNG Copenhagen 491-2; BMC 17; de Luynes 1067 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, slight roughness, broken flan.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.