Details
LOT 2618
Cyclades, Naxos AE 16mm. Circa 400-300 BC.
Bearded head of Dionysos to right, wearing ivy wreath / N-A Ξ-I, kantharos; above, grape bunch. Joy 545; Nicolet-Pierre, Naxos II pl. III, 1-9; HGC 6, 636. Near Very Fine.(3.74gr, 16mm, 11h.).
Provenance
Ex 'V' gentleman's collection, Switzerland.
From the property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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