SICILY, Naxos. Circa 415-403 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 1.54 g, 12h). VF.

Triton XXVII
Lot: 56. Estimated: $ 750

Greek, 12h, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 415-403 BC. AR Hemidrachm (13mm, 1.54 g, 12h). Horned head of river god Assinos left, wearing ivy wreath; AΣΣINO-Σ around / Silenos, nude and ithyphallic, squatting facing half-right, head left, on rocks, holding kantharos over shoulder in right hand and two pipes in extended left; NAΞI-Ω around. Cahn 115 (V73A/R93); Campana 23; SNG ANS 528; SNG Lloyd 1160; SNG München 764; SNG Delepierre 595; BMC 23; Basel 387 = Rizzo pl. XXVIII, 22; Boston MFA 310 = Warren 278; Jameson 683; Hunterian 11; McClean 2476 (all from the same dies); HGC 2, 991. Dark find patina. VF.

From the MM Collection. Ex English Queen’s Counsel Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 114, 13 May 2020), lot 47; Gorny & Mosch 237 (7 March 2016), lot 1138.


The final winners of all Triton XXVII lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 9-10 January 2024.

Triton XXVII – Session One – Lot 1-337 will be held Tuesday morning, 9 January 2024 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.