Didrachm

Features

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. , Williams# 394-396 Roderick Trevor Williams; 1992. The silver coinage of Velia. Royal Numismatic Society, London, United Kingdom. , SNG ANS 2# 1397 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). , BMC Gr/It# 110 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. , McClean# 1470 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. , Mangieri Velia# 137 Giuseppe Libero Mangieri; 1986. Velia e la sua monetazione = Velia and its coinage. Edizioni Arte e Moneta, Lugano, Switzerland.

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Obverse

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.

Reverse

Lion standing right on ground line; YEΛHTΩN above, erased letter below.

Script: Greek

Lettering: YEΛHTΩN

Mint

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

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (300 BC - 280 BC)						$ 140	$ 1300	$ 3500

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Past sales

Pictures	Sale	Date	Grade	Sold price
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Triton XXI Lot 323	9 Jan 2018	XF	USD 7500.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Künker Auction 216 Lot 95	8 Oct 2012	XF	USD 3492.10 (EUR 3000.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück and Lübke & Wiedemann KG, Leonberg
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 27 Lot 51	12 May 2004	XF	USD 3427.91 (CHF 2700.00) (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Conte Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part I, Santamaria, 12 October 1949), lot 229
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	The New York Sale Auction 27 Lot 92	4 Jan 2012	XF	USD 2250.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Glendining & Co., London, 13 December 1963, lot 69
© The New York Sale
	Multiple sales of the same specimen: CNG Auction 130 Lot 29	23 Sep 2025	VF	USD 1300.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Electronic Auction 417 Lot 11	28 Mar 2018	VF	USD 900.00 (+ buyer's premium)
Ex Seaby Coin & Medal Bulletin 818 (March 1987), no. B34
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	Numismatica Ars Classica Auction 51 Lot 538	5 Mar 2009	VF	USD 920.46 (CHF 725.00) (+ buyer's premium)
© Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG
	CNG Electronic Auction 327 Lot 249	28 May 2014	F	USD 130.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
	CNG Electronic Auction 233 Lot 87	26 May 2010	F	USD 130.00 (+ buyer's premium)
© Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.