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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 6548422, member: 57495&quot;]Wooohoo!&nbsp; Congrats on the score, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]!&nbsp; It seems like it has some really nice details beneath the encrusted dirt too, but I have to say I like how it looks just as it is.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is a mash-up of a Gortynian Europa-on-bull obverse and the Knossos Labyrinth on the reverse, from when the two traditional rivals were briefly allied.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262597[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>CRETE, Knossos</b>&nbsp; </p><p>AE19. 5.83g, 19.4mm. Knossos-Gortyna alliance issue, struck circa 220 BC. Svoronos 122; SNG Copenhagen 378; Lindgren II 1721. O: Europa, holding veil, seated left on bull leaping left; radiating lines in periphery, two dolphins below. R: [Κ-Ν-Ω-ΣΙ-ΩΝ], Labyrinth; star above.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another mash-up, but this time courtesy of the Gortynian mint overstriking their Europa/Bull type over an earlier Minotaur/Labyrinth stater of Knossos.&nbsp; The distinctive square incuse corners of the Labyrinth are still obvious on the reverse, but the head of the Minotaur is pretty well hidden (upside down) below the figure of Europa. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262598[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CRETE, Gortyna</b></p><p>AR Stater. 11.77g, 29.8mm. CRETE, Gortyna, circa 330-270 BC. SNG Cop -; Svoronos 36/62 (same obv die as 36, pl. XIII, 10; rev of 62, pl. XIV, 9); BMC Crete pg. 38, 7/8, pl. IX. 6 (same obv die) and 7 (same rev die?). O: Europa, wearing chiton with short sleeves and peplos over lower limbs, seated right in platanus tree; right hand on tree, head resting pensively on left arm, which is bent and supported by her knee. R: Bull standing to right, head turned back left to lick its flank. </p><p>Notes: Overstruck on a stater of Knossos, circa 425-360 BC (Svoronos 23), with visible undertypes of the Minotaur on obverse and Labyrinth of Knossos on reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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