452, Lot: 145. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.71 g, 7h). Inebriated Dionysos, holding kantharos, reclining left on back of an ass standing right; to right, Silenos standing right, holding thyrsos / Ethnic arrayed around vine of five grape clusters; all within incuse square. Noe, Mende 46 (same dies); HGC 3, 545 corr. (symbols on obv.); Pozzi 787 (same dies). Deeply toned, some roughness and smoothing. Near VF.