Watch List notes:

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 300-280/70 BC. Drachm (Silver, 19mm, 5.70 g 2). Head of Europa to right, wearing pendant earring and pearl necklace, and with her hair bound with grain leaves. Rev. Protome of a bull to right, his head turned slightly toward the viewer. BMC 38. Le Rider pl. XX, 17. Svoronos p. 169, 93 and pl. XV, 12. Test cuts and traces of overstriking on the obverse, otherwise, nearly very fine.


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