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Didrachm
| Issuer | Velia |
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| Year | 305 BC - 290 BC |
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| Value | Didrachm (2) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing an Attic helmet with a bowl decorated in relief with a winged Nike driving a quadriga; the neck guard bears the figure of Pegasos. The magistrate's signature ΦΙΛΙΣΤΙΩΝΟΣ appears on the crest holder, with the control letter Θ in the left field and E before the face. The portrait is rendered in the fine Late Classical style characteristic of the Velia mint's distinguished die-cutters. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΦΙΛΙΣΤΙΩΝΟΣ Θ Ε |
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Velia — the Greek colony of Hyele, founded by Phocaean refugees fleeing the Persian conquest of Ionia around 540 BC — maintained a remarkably independent mint well into the fourth century, long after many of its neighbors had capitulated to Roman or Lucanian pressure. The didrachm series of this period falls within Williams' chronological framework built almost entirely on die-linkage studies, placing these issues during a phase when the city was under sustained Lucanian military encroachment from the interior.
Williams 409–410 represents a tightly defined pair within a larger sequence, distinguishable by die characteristics rather than any visible stylistic break.