Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 722. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.29 g, 6h). 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 within linear square; all within shallow incuse. Noe, Mende 68 (same dies); AMNG III -; SNG ANS 334 (same obv. die); Dewing 1049 (same dies). Good VF, attractive light cabinet tone, edge splits, small die break on obverse. Overstruck on uncertain type (faint undertype visible at edge on reverse). Excellent metal for issue. ($5000)

Ex Kovacs MBS XV (1 October 2003), lot 52.