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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Mende |
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| Year | 460 BC - 423 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Obverse description | Dionysos, bearded and clad in a richly decorated himation, reclines leftward upon the back of a donkey advancing to the right. The god holds a kantharos in his raised right hand while his left arm hangs loosely at his side. The composition is rendered in a lively archaic-classical style characteristic of northern Aegean coinage. A single grain of barley appears in the exergue, serving as a civic emblem of Mende. |
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| Reverse description | A shallow incuse square frames a linear inner square, within which a disc bearing a sixteen-rayed star occupies the central field. At each of the four corners of the inner square, a bunch of grapes flanked by vine leaves is depicted, alluding to the city's renowned viticulture and its association with Dionysos. The civic ethnic MEN-ΔA-I-ON is distributed around the border of the linear square. The incuse technique is consistent with the archaic coinage tradition of Chalcidian colonial mints. |
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| Reverse lettering | MEN ΔA I ON |
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