Tetrobol

Features

Issuer	Mende (Macedon)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	423 BC
Value	Tetrobol (⅔)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	2.62 g
Diameter	15.5 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 571277
References	AMNG III# 24-25 Hugo Gaebler. Die antiken Münzen Makedonia und Paionia. Berlin, Germany (2 volumes). , SNG ANS 7# 372-373 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. , SNG Delepierre# 900 Hélène Nicolet-Pierre, Georges Le Rider; 1983. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France / Volume 1. Bibliothèque nationale de France: Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France. , HGC 3.1# 558 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. , Weber# 1944 Hermann David Weber, Leonard Forrer. Descriptive catalogue of the collection of Greek coins formed by Sir Hermann Weber M.D. 1823-1918. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Pozzi# 793-794 Naville & Cie (publisher); 1920. Monnaies grecques antiques: Provenant de la collection de feu le prof. S. Pozzi = Ancient Greek coins. Naville & Cie, Luzern, Switzerland. , Bement# 660 William S. Kundig (ed.); 1924. Collection Clarence S. Bement / Monnaies grecques antiques en or et en argent. Naville & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland (2 volumes). , Rhousopoulos# 904 Jacob Hirsch; 1905. Auctions-Catalog einer hochbedeutenden Sammlung Griechischer Münzen: aus dem Nachlasse eines bekannten Archäologen = Auctions catalog of a highly important collection of Greek coins. Munich, Bavaria, Germany. , McClean# 3182 Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes).

Obverse

Inebriated Dionysos, holding kantharos or rhyton, reclining left, head left or facing, on back of an ass standing right.

Reverse

Kantharos within shallow incuse square.

Script: Greek (retrograde)

Lettering: ΜΕΝΔΑΙΩΝ

Mint

Mende, Chalcidian District, modern-day Kalandra, Greece

Comments

AMNG III/2 p. 76, 24 and pl. XVI, 6; Noe Mende pl. X, b.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (-423)						$ 230	$ 570

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Heidelberger Münzhandlung Auction 90 Lot 35	13 May 2025	VF	USD 900.60 (EUR 775.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Heidelberger Münzhandlung Herbert Grün e.K.
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Jean Elsen & ses Fils Auction 155 Lot 64	16 Jun 2023	VF	USD 697.24 (EUR 600.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Jean Elsen & ses Fils s.a.
	Jean Elsen & ses Fils Auction 95 Lot 18	15 Mar 2008	VF	USD 406.72 (EUR 350.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Jean Elsen & ses Fils s.a.
	Jean Elsen & ses Fils Auction 94 Lot 172	15 Dec 2007	VF	Unsold
© Jean Elsen & ses Fils s.a.
	CNG Electronic Auction 531 Lot 74	25 Jan 2023	VF	USD 1400.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Classical Numismatic Review XLII.2 (Spring 2017), no. 452481
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Auction 115 Lot 96	16 Sep 2020	VF	USD 600.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Electronic Auction 467 Lot 64	6 May 2020	VF	USD 550.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Sotheby's (21 November 1985), lot 74 (part of)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Roma Numismatics E-Sale 58 Lot 142	20 Jun 2019	VF	USD 241.69 (GBP 180.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited
	CNG Electronic Auction 406 Lot 127	27 Sep 2017	VF	USD 425.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Albuquerque 29 (9 August 1991), lot 24
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Roma Numismatics E-Sale 37 Lot 129	24 Jun 2017	VF	USD 228.26 (GBP 170.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Roma Numismatics Limited