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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8204740, member: 85693&quot;]Unfortunately I do not have one of those &quot;labyrinth&quot; issues of Crete, but maybe someday...</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the only one I have from Crete - the eagle is not as cool as a labyrinth, but the issue is somewhat interesting, with a potential Marc Antony connection, from what I could find (if I have this attributed correctly):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438202[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Crete, Knossos&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 28</b></p><p><b>(c. 40-30 B.C.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Kydas, magistrate</b></p><p>Laureate head of Zeus facing right, thunderbolt before chin / [K - Y] / Δ - A / Σ , in three lines across field, eagle standing right, open wings.</p><p>RPC I, 224, 934; Svoronos 142; SNG Copenhagen 388.</p><p>(9.78 grams / 28 mm)</p><p>eBay June 2020&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;...but in the 30s B.C. Crete seems to have been governed by the confederation of the Kretaieis, under the supervision of Kydas the Cretarch.&nbsp; The whole &#039;dossier&#039; (Rouanet-Liesenfelt 1984) shows a person by this name appearing on inscriptions (IC IV.250, IV.251),&nbsp; on coins (Svoronos 1890, 334 no. 1 and pl. 32 fig. 1; Raven 1938, 154-8, Burnett et al. 1992, 222), and also mentioned in Cicero (<i>Phil</i>. 5.13).&nbsp; Rouanet-Leisenfelt believes that Marc Antony created this confederation and chose Kydas to rule it, probably between 43 BC (the end of Brutus&#039; proconsulate and Actium).&nbsp; If Kydas was ruling Crete, or a part of it, Crete and Cyrencaica were not united...The uncertainty of the date of the coin issues presented above, the vagueness of Kydas&#039; chronology, and the contradiction of sources have led several scholars to date the union between Crete and Cyrenaica only to 27 B.C....&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse inscription is confusingly scattered around the fields:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1438201[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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