Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Mende (Macedon)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	520 BC - 480 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.86 g
Diameter	28 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 571189
References	Noe Mende# 4 Sydney Philip Noe; 1926. The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard / Volume 27. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG ANS 7# 292 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. , BostonMFA# 545 Agnes Baldwin Brett; 1955. Catalogue of Greek Coins. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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Obverse

Ithyphallic ass walking to right; on rump a crow to left pecking at the animal.
At right, a bird standing right, wings closed.

Script: Greek (retrograde)

Lettering: ΜIΝΔΑΙΟΝ

Reverse

Mill sail incuse.

Mint

Mende, Chalcidian District, modern-day Kalandra, Greece

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (520 BC - 480 BC)

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