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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 1855532, member: 44357&quot;]Keeping with the archaic theme of the above tetradrachm, here&#039;s a drachm from Naxos:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.acsearch.info/images/48/475752.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Naxos. Circa 530 -510 BC. Drachm (Silver, 5.57 g 4), Chalcidian standard, circa 530 BC. Head of Dionysos to left, with long, pointed beard, ivy wreath in his hair and a plain torc-like necklace bordered by dots at the truncation; around, border of dots within two linear circles. Rev. NAC ION ( retrograde ) Bunch of grapes on stalk with two leaves. AMB 382 ( this coin ). Cahn 4 ( this reverse die ). Kraay Hirmer 3 (( this coin ). Extremely rare. Toned and superb, one of the finest known specimens of the earliest coinage of Naxos. Perfectly struck and centered. Extremely fine. From the Spina collection, ex Numismatica Ars Classica 25, 25 June 2003, 85 and from the collection of A. D. Moretti, Numismatica Ars Classica 13, 8 October 1998, 382.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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