SICILY, Naxos. Circa 420-415 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.96 gm). Bearded head
 of Dionysos right, wearing taenia decorated with an ivy branch / NAXION,
 nude and bearded Silenos squatting right on rocks, head left, holding
 kantharos in right hand and thyrsos in left; ivy branch behind. Cahn 101
 (V66/R83); Rizzo pl. 28, 17 (same dies); Dewing 663 (same dies); Weber
 1470 (same dies). Lightly toned VF. A pleasant example of this handsome
 coin. ($10,000) From the William N. Rudman Collection. Ex Triton III (30
 November - 1 December 1999), lot 240. This later version of the Naxos
 tetradrachm, belonging to the closing decades of the 5th century, brings
 a more refined approach to its subject in line with the artistic
 developments taking place at other Sicilian mints. All the restrictions
 of archaism are gone, leaving a fully classical abstract being,
 realistic,
 impersonal, and sensual.

Triton V Sale, 16 Jan 2002, lot 1198.
 
 Lot sold for USD  6500, plus buyers fees.