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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2605149, member: 57495&quot;]Not close to being the most expensive and certainly not the most beautiful....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]569336[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>CRETE, Gortyna</b></p><p>AR Stater. 11.77g, 29.8mm. CRETE, Gortyna, circa 330-270 BC. SNG Cop -; cf. Svoronos 58f (rev as Svoronos 62). O: Europa seated right in plane (platanus) tree, resting her head pensively on her left hand. R: Bull standing to right, head turned back left to lick its flank.</p><p>Overstruck on a stater of Knossos, circa 425-360 BC (cf. Svoronos 23), with undertypes of the Minotaur and Labyrinth of Knossos visible. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I summarized briefly in the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gortyna-stater-bull-in-the-labyrinth.285907/#post-2559320" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gortyna-stater-bull-in-the-labyrinth.285907/#post-2559320">original post</a> about this Gortyna stater overstruck on a Knossos stater was the result of many enjoyable hours of research - looking and photographing the coin from numerous angles, squinting at poorly-scanned plates of Svoronos&#039;s book on Cretan coins, trying to find any and all examples of Gortyna and Knossos staters elsewhere and online to compare with mine, and reading (or re-reading) what&#039;s been written about these two mints in the references I have access to.&nbsp; I guess it&#039;s really not surprising it ended up being my favorite coin acquired this year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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