Didrachm

Features

Issuer	Velia (Lucania)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	334 BC - 300 BC
Value	Didrachm (2)
Currency	Phocaean/Campanian Drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	7.72 g
Diameter	20 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 432144
References	HN Italy# 1294 Neville Keith Rutter, Andrew Burnett; 2001. Historia numorum: Italy. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , Williams# 326-333 Roderick Trevor Williams; 1992. The silver coinage of Velia. Royal Numismatic Society, London, United Kingdom. , SNG Ashmolean# 1270 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). , SNG Lloyd# 525 Peter Bagwell Purefoy, Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume II - The Lloyd Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Head of Athena left, wearing crested Attic helmet, the bowl decorated with a sphinx couchant left; monogram behind neck guard.

Engraver: Kleudoros (Κλευδώρου)

Reverse

Lion standing left, devouring prey, on tablet inscribed with ethnic; Φ between legs.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
Φ
YEΛHTΩN

Engraver: Kleudoros (Κλευδώρου)

Mint

Velia, Lucania, modern-day Marina di Ascea, Italy

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (334 BC - 300 BC)

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