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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Italy| > SH14414
Velia, Lucania, Italy, 350 - 281 B.C.
|Italy|, |Velia,| |Lucania,| |Italy,| |350| |-| |281| |B.C.|, Velia was the Roman name of an ancient city of Magna Graecia on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. According to Herodotus, in 545 B.C. Ionian Greeks fled Phocaea, in modern Turkey, when it was besieged by the Persians. After wandering 8 to 10 years at sea, founded the town Hyele, which was renamed Ele, and then Elea, before it became known in the Roman era by its current Latin and Italian name, Velia. The city was home to the Eleatic school and its philosophers Parmenides and Zeno of Elea. Elea joined Rome in 273 B.C. and was included in Roman Lucania. Remains include of over three miles of the city walls with traces of one gate and several towers, remains of cisterns and traces of buildings.
SH14414. Silver didrachm, BMC Italy, p. 314, 100; SNG Cop 1585, VF, Velia mint, weight 7.347g, maximum diameter 23.4mm, die axis 45o, 350 - 281 B.C.; obverse head of Athena left, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Athenian helmet decorated with dolphin, Φ on neck flap, a row of pellets on crest carrier; reverse lion walking right on line, Φ - I above, divided by an ornamented trident head right, YEΛHTΩN in exergue; rare variety; SOLD











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