MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.13 g, 11h). Inebriated Dionysos, holding kantharos and branch, reclining left on the back of an ass standing right; to right, bird perched right on branch / Ethnic around a vine with five bunches of grapes; all within incuse square. Noe, Mende 73 (same dies); HGC 3, 545. Toned, granular surfaces, minor double strike on obverse. VF.
Ex Sheik Saud Al Thani Collection (Part II, Numismatica Ars Classica 123, 9 May 2021), lot 189; CGB 47 (19 March 2011), lot 56; Michael F. Price Collection (Stack's, 3 December 1996), lot 485.
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