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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8323179, member: 87809&quot;][USER=135271]@The Meat man[/USER], nice coin. Maybe the monogram on yours is for&nbsp; Philistionos, another Velia artist of the same period. Kleodoros signed some of his productions in full KΛEYΔΩPOY, or with a monogram: KVEY or KE. </p><p><br /></p><p>One also signed by Kleodoros, but Athena got a punch in her nose..</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucania, Velia (Hyele or Elea, today’s Castell’ a Mare della Brucca?), ca. 334 - 300 BC from the workshop of Kleudoros</p><p><br /></p><p>20 mm, 7.354 g</p><p>Williams Period VI, 327 or 329; SNG ANS 1337; Rutter, Historia Numorum 1293; HN Italy 1296; SNG Copenhagen 1563; SNG Lockett 558; BMC 82</p><p>“Biographical Dictionary of Medalists Coin, Gem and Seal Engravers, Ancient and Modern”, L. Forrer, Vol III, London Spink &amp; Son, 1907, p. 177 at: <a href="https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict03forriala?view=theater#page/176/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict03forriala?view=theater#page/176/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict03forriala?view=theater#page/176/mode/2up</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Obv.: Athena to l. wearing Phrygian helmet decorated with centaur with drapery over l. arm, flap ornamented. Partial of monogram KE behind neck guard. Plain border</p><p>Rev.: lion tearing prey held with l. paw to left; KE monogram below, A above, YЄΛHTΩN in ex. Plain border</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474691[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1474693[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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