Watch List notes:

LUCANIA, Velia. Circa 300-280 BC. AR Nomos (20mm, 7.46 g, 1h). Philistion group. Helmeted head of Athena right, helmet decorated with griffin; A behind neck guard, Φ before neck / Lion standing right; above, dolphin right between I and Φ. William 455 (O226/R319); HN Italy 1307; SNG Ashmolean 1341 (same dies); BMC 94 (same dies). Good VF, toned, minor roughness on obverse.


From the Friend of a Scholar Collection, purchased from Maison Platt, November 1984.