Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1266. Estimate $1500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.11 gm). Inebriated Dionysos reclining on back of an ass, head turned right, holding a kantharos in extended right hand; crow standing on small bush with two branches before / MEN-ÐA-IO-N, vine of 5 grape clusters within linear square, all within incuse square. Noe, "The Mende (Kaliandra) Hoard", ANSNNM 27 (1926), pl. VII, 38 (same dies); SNG ANS 329 var. Toned VF. ($1500)
From the Robert Schonwalter Collection.