CRETE. Gortyna. Circa 330-270 BC. Stater (Silver, 22 mm, 11.53 g, 3 h). Europa seated half-right in plane tree, leaning her right hand on branch and propping her head on her left. Rev. Bull standing right, turning its head back to left to lick its flanks. Antike Kunst (1967), 466 (this coin). Le Rider 21c and pl. XIV, 4 (this coin). Svoronos, Crète, 59 and pl. XIV, 6. SNG Copenhagen 442. Lightly toned. Traces of overstriking and with a test cut on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.


Cretan staters are almost always overstruck on earlier coins: in the case of this example, the undertype was a tortoise stater from Aegina.