A late archaic coin of the city of Naxos, also with a representation of Dionysos with an ivy wreath, but the beard pokes through the pearl border. The reverse is a magnificent work of art. A unique representation of the difficult foreshortened front view showing a sitting, drunken Silenus, his muscular thorax, and genitals, holding a cantharus (drinking vessel) in his right hand, with his feet crossed, the legs in an upright position. A masterpiece of equal artistic quality on obverse and reverse. It is not a rare coin. Herbert Cahn identified 56 pieces in his book written during the Second World War. Today, at least 100 pieces are known. The die of the obverse suffered the greatest impact and was damaged. All later coins show on their obverse under the nose and in front of the mouth an irregularity looking like a drop, disfiguring the piece but showing that this damaged die was still used until it was discarded.