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Triton XXV  11-12 Jan 2022
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Lot 146

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 10 000 USD
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MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (29mm, 17.16 g, 10h). 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; to right, crow perched right on bush with two flowers / MEN-ΔA-IO-N within linear square around vine of five grape clusters within linear square; all within shallow incuse square. Noe, Mende –; AMNG III/2, –; HGC 3, 545; SNG ANS 331 (same rev. die); SNG Ashmolean 2291–3; SNG Copenhagen 209; Dewing 1043; Gillet 759. Toned, short flan crack, some porosity, minor double strike on obverse. Good VF.

Ex Rockefeller University/Dr. Alfred E. Mirsky Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 230.
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