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93, Lot: 13. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MACEDON, Mende. Circa 460-423 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.24 gm). Inebriated Dionysos reclining on back of an ass, holding a kantharos; crow standing on small bush before / Vine with five grape bunches within linear square; all within incuse square. Noe 24 (same dies); SNG ANS 326 (same dies); Dewing 1035 (same dies). Toned VF, a few scratches. From the Garth R. Drewry Collection (purchased from Empire Coins/Dennis Kroh, 21 February 1987). Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Glendinging's, 7 April 1971), lot 23; Coin Galleries (26 March 1969), lot 231.

A coin perhaps more interesting in that it is pedigreed to the same collector twice!