357, Lot: 24. Estimate $750. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 415-403 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 1.99 g, 6h). 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.(V73A/R93); Campana 23; HGC 2, 991. From the same dies: SNG ANS 528; SNG Lloyd 1160; SNG München 764; SNG Delepierre 595; BMC 23; Jameson 638; Hunterian 11; McClean 2476; Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 22 and pl. XXX, 5. VF, toned, porous.

From the Camerata Romeu Collection.