Watch List notes:

MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.96 g, 1h). Inebriated Dionysos, wearing chiton draped from his waist, holding in right hand a kantharos propped on his right knee, reclining left on the back of an ass standing right / MEN-ΔA-I-ON within linear square around vine of six grape clusters within linear square; all within shallow incuse square. Noe, Mende 84 (same dies); AMNG III/2, 20; HGC 3, 547; SNG ANS 346 = SNG Berry 36 (same dies); Dewing 1055 (same dies); Gulbenkian 412 (same rev. die); Jameson 1967 (same rev. die). Good VF, attractively toned, minor double strike on reverse.


Ex Stack's (6 December 1995), lot 75; Spink Numismatic Circular CXIII.2 (April 2005), no. GK1521 (illustrated on front cover).