Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 122. Estimate $2500. Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005. Sold For $2150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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MACEDON, Mende. Circa 423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.61 gm, 11h). Inebriated Dionysos reclining left, holding kantharos, on back of an ass standing right /
MEN-DA-I-ON, vine of four grape clusters within shallow linear incuse square. Cf. Noe,
Mende 84/85 (obv./rev. dies); AMNG III 20; cf. SNG ANS 346/347 (obv./rev. dies); Dewing 1055 (same obverse die). Good VF, toned, light smoothing in fields. ($2500)
From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex Gorny & Mosch 112 (17 October 2001), lot 4071.