Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Naxos (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	415 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (20)
Currency	Litra
Composition	Srebro
Weight	16.74 g
Diameter	26 mm
Shape	Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique	Młotkowana
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 24588
References	Cahn Nax# 99-103 Herbert Adolph Cahn; 1944. Die Munzen der Sizilischen stadt Naxos: Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des griechischen Westens = The Coins of the Sicilian City of Naxos. Verlag Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland. , SNG ANS 4# 524 Eva Jaunzems; 1977. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 4. Sicily 2 (Galaria-Styella). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , Jameson# 677 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Kraay&Hirm# 8-9 Colin Mackennal Kraay, Max Hirmer; 1966. Greek Coins. Thames & Hudson, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Lloyd# 1156 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes). , SNG Fitzwilliam# 1113 Fritz Heichelheim. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume IV - The Fitzwilliam Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (8 volumes). , SNG Lockett# 843 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , AMB Basel# 386 Herbert Adolph Cahn, Leo Mildenberg, Roberto Russo, Hans Voegtli; 1988. Griechische Münzen aus Grossgriechenland und Sizilien. Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland. , SNG Munich 5# 761 Peter Robert Franke, Susanne Grunauer-von Hoerschelmann; 1977. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Staatliche Münzsammlung München / Heft 5. Sikelia. Gebr. Mann, Berlin, Germany. , SNG Copenhagen# 493 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes).

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Obverse

Głowa Dionizosa w prawo, ubrana w taenię ozdobioną wici bluszczu, włosy i broda w luźnym szyku. Automatically translated

Reverse

Silenus w kucki, głowa w lewo, trzyma kantaros i thyrsos; po lewej łodyga bluszczu. Automatically translated

Script: grecki

Lettering: ΝΑΞΙΟΝ

Mint

Naxos, Sicily, Italy

Comments

Rizzo pl. XXXVIII, 17-19; Gulbenkian 232; Campana 15; HGC 2, 984; BMC 18-19; Gillet 486; Morgan 124; SNG Spencer-Churchill 47.

Według legendy bóg wina Dionizos był silnie przywiązany do cykladzkiej wyspy Naksos, która dostarczyła najwcześniejszych osadników swojego sycylijskiego imiennika. Dionizos poznał tam swoją żonę Ariadnę, a wyspa była jednym z jego najwcześniejszych ośrodków kultu. Kult Dionizosa jest silnie obecny na monetach zarówno cykladzkiego, jak i sycylijskiego Naksos. Ta piękna tetradrachma z ok. 415 r. p.n.e. przedstawia boga wina w niemal melancholijny i kontemplacyjny sposób, z włosami i brodą w nieładzie, jakby niedawno obudził się po całonocnej zabawie. Na rewersie jego rodak Silenus przykucnął, wpatrując się z tęsknotą w puchar wina, a jego mięsiste ciało zostało oddane z niezwykłą wprawą i wrażliwością.

This is an automatic translation. The original text is:

Rizzo pl. XXXVIII, 17-19; Gulbenkian 232; Campana 15; HGC 2, 984; BMC 18-19; Gillet 486; Morgan 124; SNG Spencer-Churchill 47.

According to legend, the wine god Dionysus had a strong attachment to the Cycladic island of Naxos, which provided the earliest settlers of its Sicilian namesake. Dionysus met his wife Ariadne there, and the island was one of his earliest cult centers. The cult of Dionysus features strongly on the coinage of both Cycladic and Sicilian Naxos. This beautiful tetradrachm of c. 415 BC depicts the wine god in an almost melancholy and contemplative manner, with his hair and beard in tousled disarray, as though recently woken after an all-night revel. On the reverse, his compatriot Silenus squats, gazing longingly at his wine cup, his fleshy body rendered with remarkable skill and sensitivity.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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ND (-415)							$ 120 000	$ 370 000

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