Watch List notes:

CRETE. Gortyna. Circa 220 BC. AE (Bronze, 21 mm, 7.36 g, 12 h). Laureate head of Zeus to right. Rev. ΓOP-TY/NIΩ-N Athena standing front, head to left, holding owl in her right hand and spear in her left, shield at her side. SNG Copenhagen 450. Svoronos, Crete, 177. Very rare. Smoothed and the obverse struck somewhat off center, otherwise, very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.