436, Lot: 122. Estimate $1500. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.69 g, 9h). Inebriated Dionysos, wearing chiton draped from his waist, holding in right hand a kantharos propped on his right knee, reclining left on the back of an ass standing right / Ethnic in shallow incuse around square in relief, upon which is a vine with five grape clusters; all within shallow incuse square. Noe, Mende 64 (same dies); HGC 3, 346; Jameson 1960 (same dies). VF, toned, slight granularity. Well centered.

From the Londinium Collection.