294, Lot: 64. Estimate $500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 420-403 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14mm, 2.05 g, 1h). Wreathed and horned head of river god Assinos left / Silenos, nude and ithyphallic, squatting facing half-right, head left, on rocks, holding kantharos and two pipes. Cahn 115.9 (V73A/R93 – this coin); Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 22 and pl. XXX, 5; SNG ANS 528; SNG Lloyd 1160; SNG München 764; SNG Delepierre 595; BMC 23; Jameson 638; Hunterian 11; McClean 2476 (all from the same dies). VF, toned. Good metal.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex J. Hirsch XIV (27 November 1905), lot 192.