| Issuer |
Velia
(Lucania) |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 300 BC - 280 BC |
| Value | Didrachm (2) |
| Currency | Phocaean/Campanian Drachm |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 7.61 g |
| Diameter | 21 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 436342 |
| References | HN Italy# 1301 Neville Keith Rutter, Andrew Burnett; 2001. Historia numorum: Italy. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. Roderick Trevor Williams; 1992. The silver coinage of Velia. Royal Numismatic Society, London, United Kingdom.Hyla A. Troxell; 1972. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 2. Lucania. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States. , SNG Ashmolean# 1392 Oxford University Press (publisher). Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume V - Ashmolean Museum. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (7 volumes). Reginald Stuart Poole, Barclay V. Head, Percy Gardner, Warwick William Wroth, George Francis Hill; 1873. A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum / Volume 1. Italy. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.Sidney W. Grose. Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , HGC 1# 1319 Oliver D. Hoover; 2018. Handbook of Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia / Volume 1: Sixth to First Centuries BC. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom. Giuseppe Libero Mangieri; 1986. Velia e la sua monetazione = Velia and its coinage. Edizioni Arte e Moneta, Lugano, Switzerland. |
Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated on the bowl with Pegasus flying, a striding figure on the neck guard, and a dolphin within the strands of the crest.
Lion standing right on ground line; YEΛHTΩN above, erased letter below.
Script: Greek
Lettering: YEΛHTΩN
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (300 BC - 280 BC) |
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$ 140 | $ 1300 | $ 3500 | |||||||||||
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| Pictures | Sale | Date | Grade | Sold price | |
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Multiple sales of the same specimen:
CNGTriton XXI Lot 323
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9 Jan 2018 | XF |
USD 7500.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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Künker Auction 216 Lot 95
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8 Oct 2012 | XF |
USD 3492.10
(EUR 3000.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg | |||||
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Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 27 Lot 51
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12 May 2004 | XF |
USD 3427.91
(CHF 2700.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex Conte Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part I, Santamaria, 12 October 1949), lot 229 |
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| © Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG | |||||
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The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 92
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4 Jan 2012 | XF |
USD 2250.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex Glendining & Co., London, 13 December 1963, lot 69 |
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| © The New York Sale | |||||
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Multiple sales of the same specimen:
CNGAuction 130 Lot 29
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23 Sep 2025 | VF |
USD 1300.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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CNG Electronic Auction 417 Lot 11
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28 Mar 2018 | VF |
USD 900.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 818 (March 1987), no. B34 |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 51 Lot 538
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5 Mar 2009 | VF |
USD 920.46
(CHF 725.00) (+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG | |||||
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CNG Electronic Auction 327 Lot 249
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28 May 2014 | F |
USD 130.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||
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CNG Electronic Auction 233 Lot 87
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26 May 2010 | F |
USD 130.00
(+ buyer's premium) |
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| © Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. | |||||