Triton XVII, Lot: 56. Estimate $15000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Naxos. Circa 461-430 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 4.29 g, 4h). Bearded head of Dionysos right, wearing tainia decorated with an ivy branch / Silenos, nude and bearded, squatting half-left, holding kantharos in right hand and resting his left hand on his knee, tail behind; N-A-XI-ON around; all within shallow concave circular incuse. Cahn 56 (V41/R47); HGC 2, 990; SNG Lloyd 1152; BMC 9; Jameson 676; de Luynes 1064; Pozzi 507 (all from the same dies). Near EF, lightly toned, minor die break on obverse (typical for this die). Well centered and struck on a broad flan.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.