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| Issuer | Mende (Macedon) |
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| Year | 423 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Inebriated Dionysos reclines leftward upon the back of an ass walking right, his body rendered in a languid, semi-supine posture characteristic of sympotic iconography. The god holds a kantharos or rhyton, his head turned left or depicted facing, reflecting the variable die production of this series. The composition conveys the festive, Dionysiac spirit emblematic of Mende's civic coinage, executed in vigorous archaic engraving style. |
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| Reverse description | A large kantharos with double handles and a pronounced ovoid body is depicted in high relief at the center of a shallow incuse square, rendered with careful attention to the vessel's footed base and voluted handle terminals. The retrograde ethnic legend ΜΕΝΔΑΙΩΝ is inscribed within the incuse field, distributed around the kantharos. The square incuse border is well-defined, a hallmark of early classical Macedonian civic coinage, and the field retains the granular texture characteristic of hammered silver fabric. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΜΕΝΔΑΙΩΝ |
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