Watch List notes:

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 300-280/70 BC. Drachm (Silver, 21mm, 5.70 g 9). Protome of a bull to right, his head slightly turned to front. Rev. Head of Europa to right with her hair bound in a roll. Cf. Svoronos p. 163, 44 and pl. XIII, 18. Attractively struck and well-centered on a broad flan. Traces of overstriking, otherwise, nearly very fine.


From the Brünn Collection, acquired in Italy prior to World War I.