Triton XVI, Lot: 219. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Litra (11mm, 0.69 g, 12h). Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath; NAXI to right / Grape bunch on encircling vine from which three leaves hang to either side; all in linear circle border within concave circle. Cahn 74 (V54/R62); Campana 10; SNG ANS –; SNG Lloyd –; SNG Copenhagen 491–2 (same dies); BMC 17 (same dies); de Luynes 1067 (same dies). VF, old collection toning, very light porosity, minor die break at edge on reverse.

Reportedly Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1080.

This lot includes old dealer/collection tickets that are marked as Ex Hirsch XV/1080. Philipsen 1080 was an unillustrated lot in the Hirsch sale, so the pedigree cannot be confirmed. However, this coin was consigned with others that also include the same type of old tickets, which are also marked as Ex Hirsch, and have been confirmed as being accurate.