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Didrachm
| Issuer | Velia |
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| Year | 305 BC - 290 BC |
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| Currency | Phocaean/Campanian Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Lion standing right in a dynamic pose, its head turned forward in a frontal snarl with open jaws, rendered in high relief with musculature finely detailed. A bunch of grapes appears above the lion's back, flanked by the Greek letters Φ to the left and Ι to the right, serving as magistrate or die-cutter initials. The ethnic legend ΥΕΛΗΤΩΝ is inscribed in the exergue in Greek characters, identifying the issuing city of Hyele (Velia). The composition fills the flan with confident, assured engraving characteristic of the Phistelia group. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΥΕΛΗΤΩΝ Φ Ι |
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| Mint | Velia (Hyele), Lucania |
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