Ancient Greek coin – HCR112165

Obverse

Inscription:

Θ (between helmet and crest)

Design:

Head of Athena, wearing Attic helmet, left; griffin on helmet

Reverse

Inscription:

Θ (below); ΥΕΛΗΤΩΝ

Design:

Lion, standing right; linear border

Information

Period

Greek

Mint

Velia

Denomination

Didrachm

Material

silver

Technique

struck

Dating

c. 340 BC – 334 BC (According to HN3 Italy)

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

6.67

Axis

Diameter (mm)

21.5

Acquisition method

gift

Source

Dr E. S. G. Robinson

Acquisition credit

Presented by Dr E. S. G. Robinson.

plated

Issue

Period V

Reference

SNG Ashmolean II : 1191

Note:

http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/ ID: SNGuk_0502_1191

Reference

HN3 Italy : 1284

Note:

William's index (silver coinage of Velia, 146) has this as HN3 1289, but not in the body of the text. as his 297h type should be right facing, I think there might be an error in the index.

Reference

IRIS : https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/velia.hn_italy.1283-1287

Contributors to this coin record

autouploader, VHVolunteer3, vheuchert, gthompson