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# 33 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$125000
/ Price Realized: US$100000
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Sicily. Naxos. Tetradrachm
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Sicily. Naxos. c. 410 BC. Tetradrachm, 17.31g. Obv: Head of Dionysos facing right, wearing taenia decorated with ivy-tendrils. Dotted border. Rx: ΝΑΞΙΟΝ Squatting Silenos holding cantharos and thyrsos. To left, stem of ivy. Cahn 102. BM 19 (same dies). SNG Lloyd 1156 (same dies). Ch. Boehringer, SNR 57 (1978) p. 123, 164, pl. 34 (same dies). Toned EF.
According to the evidence of the Ognina Hoard (IGCH 2120, see Boehringer, p. 136), the tetradrachm issue of Naxos must be somewhat later than thought by Cahn and Robinson. The style of the obverse head is indeed reminiscent of the head of Apollo that appears on Euainetos' Catanaean tetradrachm (Kraay-Hirmer fig. 8 O. and 42 R.), cf. Baldwin Brett, Boston cat. p. 44, 308.
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