Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Mende (Macedon)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	460 BC - 423 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	16.83 g
Diameter	29 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 570838
References	Noe Mende# 75-76 Sydney Philip Noe; 1926. The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard / Volume 27. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG ANS 7# 341 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. , Jameson# 1957 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , Traité IV# 973 Ernest Babelon; 1932. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.4 Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de la Grèce septentrionale aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , 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

Dionysos, holding a kantharos in his right hand, reclining on donkey walking to right; to right, crow perched in bush; below donkey, ant.

Reverse

Grape vine with five grape-clusters; 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)						$ 1900	$ 7800

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Examples of the type

SNG ANS 341; Noe Mende 75

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Künker Auction 365 Lot 5079	4 Apr 2022	VF	USD 8129.94 (EUR 7000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	The New York Sale Auction 37 Lot 811	5 Jan 2016	VF	USD 7000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Leu Numismatik 91, Zürich, 10 May 2004, lot 105; Giessener Münzhandlung 55, Munich 1991, No. 133
© The New York Sale
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: Stacks Bowers January 2026 NYINC Auction Lot 40032	16 Jan 2026	F (NGC Choice F 4/5 - 2/5)	USD 2000.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Spink USA 331, 21.03.2017, lot 20
© Stacks Bowers
	CNG Electronic Auction 164 Lot 36	9 May 2007	F	USD 1551.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.