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Tetradrachm
| Uitgever | Mende (Macedon) |
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| Jaar | 520 BC - 480 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Ithyphallic donkey advancing to the right in high relief, rendered with naturalistic musculature characteristic of early Archaic coinage. A crow is perched upon the animal's rump, depicted with spread wings and beak lowered toward the tail in a pecking gesture. The ethnic legend ΜΕΝΔΑΙΟΝ curves along the right field in archaic Greek characters. The composition is bold and energetic, consistent with the distinctive early civic coinage of Mende, a city whose principal export was wine and whose Dionysiac iconography pervades its numismatic output. |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Greek |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Mende was one of the wealthiest poleis on the Chalcidice peninsula, its prosperity built almost entirely on wine exports — the city's vintages were traded as far as Egypt and the Black Sea littoral. This coin circulated precisely when that commercial network was at its peak, before the Persian invasions of 480–479 BC disrupted Aegean trade routes and temporarily collapsed the silver-based economies of northern Greece.
The specific die pairing catalogued under Noe #12 is among the earlier attributed emissions of the series, placing this piece toward the archaic end of the production window.