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21 February 2021
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Starting Price: 750 CHF
Hammer Price:  4200 CHF
Lot 138

MACEDON. Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 16.69 g, 3 h), c. 440-430. Dionysos, bearded and wearing himation, holding a kantharos in his extended right hand and resting his left, reclining left on the back of a donkey walking right; to right, crow perched on a vine to right. Rev. MEN-ΔA-IO-N Linear square containing a vine with leaves, tendrils and four bunches of grapes. Noe, Mende 67. SNG ANS 334 (same obverse die but in a later stage). With an obverse of very good style, elegantly engraved. Porous surfaces and reverse struck from a very worn die, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Trausnitz Collection, bought from Münzhandlung Athena on 28 March 2000.

Online bidding closes: 21 Feb 2021, 16:09:00 CET Current Date & Time: 26 Apr 2024, 05:27:42 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:4200 CHF by MailBidder9866 (12 bids)
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