Tetradrachm

Features

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. , SNG ANS 7# 326 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). , 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

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.

Reverse

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

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)							$ 3500

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Examples of the type

SNG ANS 326; Noe Mende 24

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: The New York Sale Auction 65 Lot 1015	15 Jan 2026	VF	USD 3400.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© The New York Sale
	CNG Auction 127 Lot 89	17 Sep 2024	VF	USD 3500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Triton XXIX Lot 103	13 Jan 2026	VF	USD 5500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Athena Fund (Part III, Sotheby's, 9 December 1993), lot 89
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Auction 129 Lot 94	13 May 2025	VF	USD 8500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex G. Empedocles Collection; from 1913 Kaliandra Hoard (IGCH 358) = Noe Mende 26
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Electronic Auction 460 Lot 145	29 Jan 2020	VF (NGC VF 4/5 - 2/5)	USD 1000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Münzen & Medaillen GmbH Auction 37 Lot 10	23 Nov 2012	VF	USD 1279.97 (EUR 1100.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Münzen & Medaillen GmbH
	Hess Divo Auction 321 Lot 85	25 Oct 2012	VF	USD 5330.04 (CHF 4200.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel - Lagerliste 520 (1989), 11
© Hess Divo
	Künker Auction 158 Lot 154	28 Sep 2009	VF	USD 1978.14 (EUR 1700.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	CNG Electronic Auction 93 Lot 13	7 Jul 2004	VF	USD 600.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Glendinging's, 7 April 1971, lot 23; Coin Galleries, 26 March 1969, lot 231
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	The New York Sale Auction 5 Lot 88	16 Jan 2003	VF	USD 1200.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© The New York Sale