MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 16.49 g, 3h). 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; before, bird perched right upon branch / MEN-ΔA-I-ON within linear square around vine of five grape clusters within linear square; all within shallow incuse square. Noe,
Mende, Group II, 25 (same dies); HGC 3, 545. Toned, remnants of find patina, some granularity and light smoothing, struck with somewhat worn dies. VF.
