目录
查看完整图片 — 免费注册
使用Google继续 — 免费
或用邮箱注册
为什么需要注册？只是为了防止机器人访问我们的目录。您的邮箱完全保密——我们绝不会分享或在未经您许可的情况下发送任何内容。我们向您保证！
| 正面描述 | Helmeted head of Athena facing left, her Phrygian helmet elaborately decorated with a centauress in relief on the bowl and a scroll motif on the neck guard. The engraver's signature monogram of ΚΛΕΥ (Kleudoros) appears behind the neck guard, attesting to the hand of one of Velia's most accomplished die-cutters. The portrait is rendered in the refined, high-relief style characteristic of the Velia mint during its late fourth-century artistic peak, with finely detailed facial features and carefully articulated helmet crest. |
|---|---|
| 正面文字 | Greek |
| 正面铭文 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 背面描述 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 背面文字 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 背面铭文 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 边缘 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 铸币厂 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 铸造量 | 登录 以查看详情 |
| 附加信息 |
Velia — the Latin name for Elea — was a Phocaean Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucania, founded around 540 BC by refugees fleeing the Persian conquest of Ionia. By the late fourth century, the city faced mounting pressure from Lucanian tribal confederacies pushing coastward, a threat that forced periodic alliances with Rome and reshaped its coinage output. The didrachms of this period represent the city's most ambitious silver production, struck at a weight standard consistent with the Campano-Tarentine system rather than the Attic, reflecting Velia's commercial orientation toward western rather than eastern Mediterranean trade networks.
Williams' die study identified a tightly clustered sequence for this group, suggesting concentrated production rather than continuous issue — possibly linked to a specific military or political episode requiring rapid liquidity.