Tetradrachm
Features
| Issuer |
Mende
(Macedon)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 460 BC - 423 BC |
| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
| Currency | Attic drachm |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 16.93 g |
| Diameter | 30 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 571010 |
| References | Noe Mende# 57 Sydney Philip Noe; 1926. The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard / Volume 27. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). |
Obverse
Dionysos, bearded and wearing an ivy wreath and a himation, holding a kantharos in his extended right hand and resting his left hand on the cloth covering the donkey's back, reclining left on the back of a donkey walking to right; in the lower right field, crow perched to right within a pair of ivy branches.
Reverse
Linear square containing a vine with leaves, tendrils and five bunches of grapes.
Script: Greek
Lettering: ΜΕΝΔΑΙΟΝ
Mint
Mende, Chalcidian District, modern-day Kalandra, GreeceSee also
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (460 BC - 423 BC) | 
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$ 40 000 | |||||||||||||
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Numista Rarity index: 100
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Past sales
| Pictures | Sale | Date | Grade | Sold price | |
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Nomos AG Auction 35 Lot 238 
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15 Jun 2025 | XF |
USD 40 514.53
(CHF 32 000.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex Morton & Eden, 24 October 2011, 86; Münzen und Medaillen 38, 6 December 1968, 36; from the Kaliandra Hoard of 1913 (IGCH 358) |
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Multiple sales of the same specimen:
Roma NumismaticsAuction XIX Lot 365
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26 Mar 2020 |
XF (NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 5/5) |
USD 40 310.93
(GBP 30 000.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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Heritage Auctions 2019 January 6 - 7 NYINC World Coins Signature Auction - New York 3071 Lot 34018
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6 Jan 2019 |
XF (NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 5/5) |
USD 32 000.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex F. Sternberg 17, 9 May 1986, 95; Adolph Hess AG - Bank Leu AG 45, 12 May 1970, 118; Richard Cyril Lockett Collection, Glendining & Co., 25 October 1955, 1267; from the Kaliandra Hoard of 1913 (IGCH 358) = SNG Lockett 1346 |
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