345, Lot: 34. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 220 BC. Æ (13mm, 2.26 g, 9h). Laureate head of Apollo right within circle of dots / Bull butting left. Cf. Jackson e, pl. 13, 12; Svoronos, Numismatique 141, pl. XVI, 7; SNG Copenhagen 457; Traeger 93d (this coin, illustrated). Near VF, red-brown patina, thick deposits on reverse. Very rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Dr. Burkhard Traeger Collection (Künker 136, 10 March 2008), lot 93 (part of); James H. Joy Collection (Münzen und Medaillen GmbH 21, 24 May 2007), lot 871 (part of).