Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 121. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.25 gm, 9h). Inebriated Dionysos reclining left, holding kantharos, on back of an ass standing right; before, crow standing right on branch / MEN-DA-I-ON, vine of four grape clusters on raised central square within shallow incuse. Noe, Mende 50 (same dies); AMNG III -; SNG ANS 333 (same dies); Dewing 1042 (same dies). VF, attractively toned, minor die rust, obverse double struck. ($3000)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 492; Münzen und Medaillen Fixed Price List 300 (May 1969), no. 11.