Triton XV, Lot: 1059. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 415-403 BC. AR Litra (12mm, 0.84 g, 4h). Head of young Dionysos left, wearing ivy wreath / Grape bunch on vine; NAΞIΩ[N] below. Cahn 141 (V85/R113); Campana 28C/b; Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 24; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; SNG München –; Weber 1472 (same dies). EF, toned, light granularity. Exceptionally artistic obverse. Very rare.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 27 (12 May 2004), lot 100; Athos D. Moretti Collection.