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Triton XXV  11-12 Jan 2022
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Lot 147

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 12 000 USD
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MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.82 g, 6h). Inebriated Dionysos, wearing chiton draped from his waist, holding kantharos in his extended right hand, reclining left on the back of an ass standing right; to right, Silenos standing right, holding thyrsos in his right hand, and in his left, a wine-skin draped over his shoulder / MEN-ΔA-I-ON within linear square around vine of five grape clusters within linear square; all within shallow incuse square. Noe, Mende 45 (same dies); HGC 3, 545 corr. (symbols on obv.); SNG ANS 332 (same rev. die); Gulbenkian 408 = Jameson 1959 (same dies). Lightly toned, slight roughness, light cleaning marks in periphery on reverse. VF. A rare type with Silenos walking before ass; only four examples in CoinArchives, all inferior to the present specimen.
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