Head, Barclay V.: Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887)

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SICILY.

Circ. b. c. 461-415. Attic standard.



Fig. 86.

Head of Dionysos, of early style, with
long beard and liair in bunch be-
hind bound with ivy-wreath (Fig.
86).
Id.
Id.

N AX I ON Bearded Silenos of strong
archaic style, naked, with pointed
ear and long tail, seated on the
ground facing with head in profile;
he holds a wine-cup with one hand
and leans on the other. JR Tetradr.
„ Id. ... Hl Drachm.
,, Bunch of grapes . . .
JR Litr. or Obol.

Circ. b. c. 415-403.



Fig. 87.

Head of Dionysos bearded, bound with
broad band adorned with ivy-wreath
(Fig. 87).
NAHIF1N Head of Apollo, laur.;
behind, laurel-leaf.
NAS IF1N Head of young Dionysos
ivy-crowned.

N A E10 N Similar Silenos, but of softer
and more refined style, seated on the
ground, from which a vine springs;
he holds thyrsos and kantharos .
AR Tetradr.
Similar; to r. a term ; sometimes with
artist’s signature, PPOKAHC . .
AR Didr.
Naked Silenos seated, holding wine-skin,
kantharos, and branch of ivy; in front
a vine grows .... AR Tetradr.

In the Berlin Museum there is a coin which in style and type
resembles the coin with PPOKAH^, but instead of NAEIDN it reads
NEOnOAI. It is supposed by Holm (Gesch. Sic., ii. 432) that these pieces
were issued by the Naxians, after the destruction of their old town, at
Mylae, where they found a new home (Diod. xiv. 87).

AMINOS Young horned head of
river-god Assinus.

Similar Silenos .

AR | Drachm.