CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 330-270 BC. AR Stater (26.5mm, 11.71 g, 1h). Europa seated right within tree branches, propping up her head with her left hand, right hand set on branches to left / Bull standing right, head reverted. Svoronos, Numismatique 57; Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 66, 23, pl. XIV, 4 = Hermitage Sale II 1049 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 440; Boutin 127 (same dies); Evans –; Traeger 67. Old cabinet tone, slightly off center on obverse, a couple small die breaks on reverse. VF. Overstruck on an uncertain issue of Cyrenaica.
Ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 596; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 272 (January 1967), no. 18; Hermitage Museum Collection (Schlessinger 13, 4 February 1935), lot 351.