Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 48. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 420-403 BC. AR Hemidrachm (1.88 g, 9h). Youthful head of the river god Assinos left, wearing wreath of selinon leaves; AΣΣINO-Σ around / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-right, head left, on rocks, holding kantharos in right hand, thyrsos in left, tail behind; NAΞI-ΩN around. Cahn 115 (V73A/R93); SNG ANS 528; SNG Lloyd 1160; Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 22; Basel 387; BMC 23; Boston MFA 310; Jameson 638; McClean 2476 (all from the same dies). Near EF, toned, a couple insignificant marks under tone. A choice Naxos fraction.