bgr_512937 - LUCANIA - VELIA Nomos, statère ou didrachme
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Price : 520.00 €
Type : Nomos, statère ou didrachme
Date: c. 305/304-293/290 AC.
Mint name / Town : Vélia, Lucanie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,41 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Belle tête d’Athéna à l’usure régulière. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête d'Athéna à droite, coiffée du casque attique à cimier avec triple aigrette, orné d’une aile et d’une couronne d’olivier.
Obverse legend : AH/ F
Reverse
Reverse description : Lion passant à droite ; épi de blé au-dessus.
Reverse legend : UELHTWN/ F-I/ G
Reverse translation : (de Vélia).
Commentary
Très tôt, le monnayage de Vélia a été décrit comme ayant inspiré la drachme lourde de Marseille (LT. 785-791). Certains l’ont même décrit comme un monnayage symmachique : un lion de Vélia étant l’équivalent de deux lions de Marseille. Aujourd’hui, cette théorie est remise en cause, par G. Depeyrot, non sans arguments, mais avec une certaine acrimonie. Le lion de Vélia a pu servir de modèle à celui de Marseille, mais à quelle date ? La frappe à Vélia commence dans la seconde moitié du Ve siècle avant J.-C. pour se poursuivre jusqu’en 281 avant J.-C. À quel moment les Massaliotes auraient-ils empruntés le lion de Vélia ?.
Very early on, the coinage of Velia was described as having inspired the heavy drachma of Marseille (LT. 785-791). Some have even described it as a symmachic coinage: a lion of Velia being the equivalent of two lions of Marseille. Today, this theory is called into question by G. Depeyrot, not without arguments, but with a certain acrimony. The lion of Vélia could have served as a model for that of Marseille, but at what date? The minting at Velia began in the second half of the 5th century BC and continued until 281 BC. When would the Massaliotes have borrowed the lion from Velia?
Very early on, the coinage of Velia was described as having inspired the heavy drachma of Marseille (LT. 785-791). Some have even described it as a symmachic coinage: a lion of Velia being the equivalent of two lions of Marseille. Today, this theory is called into question by G. Depeyrot, not without arguments, but with a certain acrimony. The lion of Vélia could have served as a model for that of Marseille, but at what date? The minting at Velia began in the second half of the 5th century BC and continued until 281 BC. When would the Massaliotes have borrowed the lion from Velia?
Historical background
LUCANIA - VELIA
(350-281 BC)
Velia, Elea for the Greeks, was founded around 540 BC by Phocaeans who had left Asia Minor after the fall of Sardis in 546 BC. Velia became an ally of the Romans from 275 BC The lion was the symbol of the city hence its use on the coinage of Marseille because the Marseille metropolis had close ties with Velia.
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