Knossos–Gortyna Alliance Issue

345, Lot: 50. Estimate $50. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Knossos. Circa 220 BC. Æ (21mm, 3.80 g, 6h). Knossos–Gortyna alliance issue. Europa, holding veil, seated left on bull leaping left; dolphin below, radiating lines in periphery / Labyrinth; star above. Svoronos, Numismatique 118; SNG Copenhagen 378–9 var. (two dolphins); Traeger 178. Fine, rough green patina. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Glendining (8 July 1987), lot 84 (part of).