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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Mende (Macedon) |
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| Year | 460 BC - 423 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Noe Mende#89, SNG Hart#561 |
| Obverse description | Inebriated Dionysos reclines leftward upon the back of a donkey walking to the right, rendered in a confident archaic-to-early-classical style. The god wears a chiton draped loosely about his waist and raises a kantharos in his right hand, resting it upon his right knee in a posture conveying divine revelry. The composition conveys dynamic naturalism rare in fifth-century BC provincial coinage. A barley grain appears in the exergue, referencing Mende's agricultural prosperity. The field is plain, with the irregular flan characteristic of hand-struck Macedonian silver. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Mende, Chalcidian District, modern-day Kalandra, Greece |
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