| Issuer |
Mende
(Macedon) |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 460 BC - 423 BC |
| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
| Currency | Attic drachm |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 17.02 g |
| Diameter | 27.5 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered, Incuse |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 571102 |
| References | Noe Mende# 20-26 Sydney Philip Noe; 1926. The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard / Volume 27. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.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. , Dewing# 1033-1036 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). 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. |
Inebriated Dionysos, wearing chiton draped from his waist, holding in right hand a kantharos propped on his right knee, reclining left on the back of an ass standing right; to right, crow perched right on bush with two flowers.
MEN-Δ-A-IO-N within linear square around vine of five grape clusters within linear square; all within shallow incuse square.
Script: Greek
Lettering: ΜΕΝΔΑΙΟΝ
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (460 BC - 423 BC) |
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$ 3500 | |||||||||||||
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| Pictures | Sale | Date | Grade | Sold price | |
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Multiple sales of the same specimen:
The New York SaleAuction 65 Lot 1015
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15 Jan 2026 | VF |
USD 3400.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © The New York Sale | |||||
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CNG Auction 127 Lot 89
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17 Sep 2024 | VF |
USD 3500.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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CNG Triton XXIX Lot 103
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13 Jan 2026 | VF |
USD 5500.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex Athena Fund (Part III, Sotheby's, 9 December 1993), lot 89 |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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CNG Auction 129 Lot 94
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13 May 2025 | VF |
USD 8500.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex G. Empedocles Collection; from 1913 Kaliandra Hoard (IGCH 358) = Noe Mende 26 |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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CNG Electronic Auction 460 Lot 145
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29 Jan 2020 |
VF (NGC VF 4/5 - 2/5) |
USD 1000.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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Münzen & Medaillen GmbH Auction 37 Lot 10
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23 Nov 2012 | VF |
USD 1279.97
(EUR 1100.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Münzen & Medaillen GmbH | |||||
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Hess Divo Auction 321 Lot 85
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25 Oct 2012 | VF |
USD 5330.04
(CHF 4200.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel - Lagerliste 520 (1989), 11 |
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| © Hess Divo | |||||
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Künker Auction 158 Lot 154
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28 Sep 2009 | VF |
USD 1978.14
(EUR 1700.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg | |||||
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CNG Electronic Auction 93 Lot 13
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7 Jul 2004 | VF |
USD 600.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex Glendinging's, 7 April 1971, lot 23; Coin Galleries, 26 March 1969, lot 231 |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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The New York Sale Auction 5 Lot 88
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16 Jan 2003 | VF |
USD 1200.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © The New York Sale | |||||