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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4602133, member: 57495&quot;]Those are incredible!&nbsp; I didn&#039;t realize that the Cretan cities struck these.&nbsp; And now that you bring up the idea of their support for Mithradates, the obverse of the new style tetradrachms sure look alot like that on the big Pontic bronzes with Perseus and headless Medusa that we were showing on <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/medusa-with-sixpack.362392/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/medusa-with-sixpack.362392/">another thread</a> here recently.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve probably posted this one here too many times already, but won&#039;t pass up the chance to post it again.&nbsp; A Gortyna stater overstruck on a Knossos.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1139897[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The underlying type of the Labyrinth is pretty obvious on the reverse, but my favorite bit is the minotaur&#039;s head hidden in that mess of an obverse.&nbsp; The inset in the below pic shows the head from my coin against that of a Knossos stater&#039;s (that one NOT MY COIN, obviously).&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1139898[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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