DescriptionZankle-Messene - 460-430 BC - silver tetradrachm - charioteer driving mule team and flying Nike - hare - München SMS.jpg
English: object type: Greek coin
- production technique: struck
- issuing authority: city: Zankle - DANKLE / ΖΑΝΚΛΗ / Messene - ΜΕΣΣΗΝΗ - Messana
- period / date: ca. 460-430 BC
- material: silver
- denomination: tetradrachm
- weight: 17.08 gr
- description obverse: charioteer (standing: nymph Messene?) driving mule team; flying Nike crowning the mules
- mintmark / additional symbol in exergue: 2 confronted dolphins
- description reverse: springing hare
- inscription (Greek): ΜΕΣΣAΝΙΟΝ
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliche Münzsammlung
- bibliographic / online references: SNG München 6 (1980), 653
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