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Tritetartemorion
| Issuer | Mende (Macedon) |
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| Year | 460 BC - 423 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A bird — identified in numismatic literature as a raven or crow — depicted standing to right with wings folded and head turned slightly downward, set within a shallow incuse square formed by the hammer strike of the reverse die. The incuse square is recessed and roughly quadrilateral, a characteristic feature of early Greek silver coinage produced by the incuse punch technique. The bird is rendered in relief against the incuse field, with tail feathers and leg detail visible. No legend or additional devices are present. |
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| Mint | Mende, Chalcidian District, modern-day Kalandra, Greece |
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Mende, a Chalkidian colony on the Pallene peninsula, was among the most prosperous wine-exporting cities in the northern Aegean during the fifth century BC — wealthy enough to strike a remarkably complete fractional series down to this tiny denomination. The tritetartemorion, three-quarters of a tetartemorion, represents one of the smallest divisions in the Greek silver coinage system, issued to facilitate small transactions in a port economy that ran on precise exchange.
The city was destroyed by Philip II of Macedon in 358 BC, which provides a hard terminus for the active commercial life that made coins this small necessary.