MACEDONIA. MEND. AR-Tetradrachme, 460/423 B.C. ==References== 17,26 g. Dionysus on donkey r. with Kantharos, before crow between branches//In Incusum: vine on raised square. Hoover 545; Noe, The Mende (Kalandra) Hoard 52; ==References== 333. Of great rarity. Light embossing weaknesses, very nice/beautiful-very nice Exemplary of the collection "Antique coins from two generations – a common passion for collecting".Exemplar of the auction Peus Nachf. 384, Frankfurt am Main 2005, Nr. 190 and the auction Giessener Münzhandlung 146, Munich 2006, Nr. 151. The god on the Avers is interpreted by Ann-Marie Knoblauch as hephaistos, then the return of the Hephaisto to the Olympus would be depicted on the Avers. 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.