Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Mende (Macedon)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	460 BC - 423 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.77 g
Diameter	28 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 571011
References	Noe Mende# 55 Sydney Philip Noe; 1926. The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard / Volume 27. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG ANS 7# 334 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. , 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. , Nanteuil# 762 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).

Obverse

Elderly Dionysus, wearing ivy wreath and himation, reclining on mule's back left, holding cantharus with right hand and resting left on the animal's side; before, bird on plant.

Reverse

ΜΕΝΔΑΙΟΝ around linear square containing vine with five bunches of grapes; 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 (460 BC - 423 BC)

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