Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Mende (Macedon)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	430 BC - 410 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	17.18 g
Diameter	27 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 570825
References	Noe Mende# 82 Sydney Philip Noe; 1926. The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard / Volume 27. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG ANS 7# 344 Nancy M. Waggoner; 1987. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 7. Macedonia I (Cities, Thraco-Macedonian Tribes, Paeonian kings). American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , Jameson# 1970 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Traité IV# 985 Ernest Babelon; 1932. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.4 Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de la Grèce septentrionale aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , SNG Ashmolean# 2301, 2302 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , Nanteuil# 764 Henri Joseph de la Barre de Nanteuil, Louis Ciani (ed.), Jules Florange (ed.); 1925. Collection de monnaies grecques H. de Nanteuil. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (2 volumes). , Dewing# 1054 Leo Mildenberg (ed.), Silvia Mani Hurter (ed.); 1985. The Dewing Collection of Greek Coins. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States (2 volumes). , HGC 3.1# 549 Oliver D. Hoover; 2016. Handbook of Coins of Macedon and Its Neighbors / Volume 3, Part 1. Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros: Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. , Kunstfreund# 139 Herbert Adolph Cahn (ed.), Silvia Mani Hurter (ed.), Leo Mildenberg (ed.), Pierre Strauss (ed.); 1974. Griechische Münzen aus der Sammlung eines Kunstfreundes: Auktion am 18. Mai 1974 in Zürich = Greek coins from the collection of an art lover. Bank Leu, Munzen & Medaillen Basel, Zürich, Switzerland / Basel, Switzerland.

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Obverse

Dyonisus, head right, wearing ivy wreath and himation, reclining on mule back left, holding cantharus with right hand and resting left on the animal’s side.

Reverse

Linear square containing four palmettes in saltire with a star in the centre; all within incuse square.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΜΕΝΔΑΙΟΝ

Mint

Mende, Chalcidian District, modern-day Kalandra, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (430 BC - 410 BC)

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 48 Lot 60	21 Oct 2008	XF	USD 38 071.74 (CHF 30 000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Naville 4, 1922, 442; Leu-M&M 1974, Kunstfreund, 139; Leu 76, 1999, 98; from 1913 Kaliandra Hoard (IGCH 358)
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	Münzen & Medaillen GmbH Auction 49 Lot 136	20 Nov 2020	VF	USD 16 872.35 (EUR 14 500.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Hess-Leu 36 (1968), 44; M&M 53 (1977), 55; from de Nanteuil collection and from 1913 Kaliandra Hoard (IGCH 358) = Nanteuil 764
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