VELIA SILVER DIDRACHM – EX ROBERT BALL LIST OF 1937 – VF GREEK LUCANIA PROVENANCED COIN (Inv. 21385)

$1,650.00

21385. LUCANIA. VELIA. Ca. 340–300 BC.
Silver Didrachm, 7.59 g, 23 mm.
Obv. Helmeted head of Athena left, griffin decoration on the helmet, Θ in right field. Rev. YEΛHTΩN, lion prowling right, Φ above, Θ below.
HGC 1, 1310; HN Italy 1284; Williams 264 (O152/R203); SNG ANS 1292 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 1193 (same dies, also overstruck on a Pegasus stater); SNG München 857 (same dies).
Ex Robert Ball 39, April 1937, lot 87.
Virtually VF, graffito ΛAIX on reverse, likely overstruck on a Corinthian-type stater, the rounded top of Athena’s helmet visible on the bottom of the obverse.