Litra

Features

Issuer	Naxos (Sicily)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	530 BC - 510 BC
Value	1 Litra
Currency	Litra
Composition	Silver
Weight	0.84 g
Diameter	12 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 506994
References	Cahn Nax# 12-32 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. , HGC 2# 967 Oliver D. Hoover; 2012. Handbook of Coins of Sicily (Including Lipara) / Volume 2: Civic, Royal, Siculo-Punic, and Romano-Sicilian Issues : Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. , Buceti# 2 Giuseppe Buceti; 2010. Monete, storia e topografia della Sicilia greca. Plectica, Messina, Italy.

Obverse

Head of Dionysos to left, wearing an ivy wreath and with a pointed beard; all within a circle of dots

Reverse

Bunch of grapes on stalk; all within circle of dots

Script: Greek (retrograde)

Lettering: NAXION

Mint

Naxos, Sicily, Italy

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (530 BC - 510 BC)

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