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14C008 Signed by Procles. Laureate head of Apollo left, laurel leaf and berry behind, die engraver's initial (greek pi) under neck truncation / Silenus seated facing on ground, head left, lifting cantharus to lips, ivy vine to left, herm to right. Cahn 107 (V70/R89). Ex Oskar Kokoschka collection. Extremely Rare.
The aesthetically important coinage of Naxos involved only a few
dies with an artist's signature. All belong to the last phase of
the city's coinage, dated c. 420-403 B.C., and all are signed by
the same die cutter. His full name, Procles, appears on a didrachm
reverse die (Cahn R90) and also on a tetradrachm of Catana. Here
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under the neck. Traces of undertype after striking. |
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