MACEDONIA. MEND. AR-Tetradrachme, 460/423 B.C. ==References== 17,11 g. Dionysus on donkey r. with Kantharos, in front crow between branches//In Incusum: vine on raised square. Hoover 545; Noe, The Mende (Kalandra) Hoard 50; SNG ANS 333. Of great rarity. Min. cleaning traces, almost excellent/very nice From a South German private collection. Exemplary of the auction Ars Classica XVII, Lucerne 1934, No. 336 and the auction Peus 261, Frankfurt am Main 1960, No 791. The God on the Avers is interpreted by Ann-Marie Knoblauch as Hephaistos, then represented on the avers the return of the Hephaestus to the Olympus. See Garlic, A.-M., Myth and Message in Northern Greece: Interpreting the Classical Coins of Mende, in: Hartswick, K. J./Sturgeon, M.C. (eds.), T.A.N. Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. Philadelphia 1998, pp. 155 et seq. This interesting interpretation, of course, is not mandatory, so we call the God of tradition Dionysus.