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07: Sicily, Naxos, Drachm

Naxos on Sicily, a city lying between Catania and Acireale on the present day peninsula of Capo Schiso. This is the earliest coin of the series, about 525 BC, with a double image. That is a convex image on the obverse and the reverse. On the obverse, the head of the bearded Dionysos with a wreath of vine-leaves, on the reverse there is a vine-tendril with a cluster of grapes, two leaves and the inscription NAXION.