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Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer Mende (Macedon)
Type Standard circulation coins
Year 425 BC
Value Tetradrachm (4)
Currency Attic drachm
Composition Silver
Weight 17.08 g
Diameter 26 mm
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered, Incuse
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
571002
References Noe Mende# 62
Sydney Philip Noe; 1926. The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard / Volume 27. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.
, Dewing# 1046
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# 545
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.

Obverse

Dionysos, bearded, wearing himation and holding kantharos, reclining to left on the back of a donkey standing to right; before, a crow standing on branches to right.

Reverse

Vine with four bunches of grapes in a linear square; ΜΕΝΔΑΙΟΝ in a shallow incuse square around.

Script: Greek

Lettering: ΜΕΝΔΑΙΟΝ

Mint

Mende, Chalcidian District, modern-day Kalandra, Greece

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (-425)  Photo $ 2300 $ 16 000

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Multiple sales of the same specimen:
Roma Numismatics
Auction XXI
Lot 113
Internet Archive
24 Mar 2021 XF USD 16 124.37
(GBP 12 000.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Roma Numismatics
Auction XVIII
Lot 570
Internet Archive
29 Sep 2019 XF Unsold
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Roma Numismatics
Auction XV
Lot 106
Internet Archive
5 Apr 2018 XF Unsold
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Hess Divo
Auction 332
Lot 28
Internet Archive
31 May 2017 XF USD 12 027.75
(CHF 9500.00)
(+ buyer's premium)

Ex Peus Nachfolger 407, 7 November 2012, 350; Peus Nachfolger 401, 3 November 2011, 304; Peus Nachfolger 384, 2 November 2005, 189; Münzen und Medaillen 88, 17 May 1999, 133; E. Bourgey, 13 June 1952, 81; L. Hamburger, 11 June 1930, 12

Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Münzen & Medaillen GmbH
Auction 38
Lot 14
Internet Archive
5 Jun 2013 XF USD 23 832.61
(EUR 20 500.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
Gorny & Mosch
Auction 269
Lot 237
Internet Archive
9 Mar 2020 VF USD 1976.36
(EUR 1700.00)
(+ buyer's premium)

Ex Monetarium List 59, Zurich 1993, No. 46

Picture 1 of a sold Tetradrachm
CNG
Triton VI
Lot 137
Internet Archive
14 Jan 2003 VF USD 3200.00
(+ buyer's premium)
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