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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3223050, member: 57495&quot;]That’s a very cool score.&nbsp; SNG Cop 461 looks like it may be a match for your coin, though it&#039;s more worn than yours and any letters below the bull are missing.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839507[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>They reference their coin to Svoronos 189, which does happen to be <a href="https://archive.org/details/SvoronosNumismatiqueDeLaCrteAncienne" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/SvoronosNumismatiqueDeLaCrteAncienne" rel="nofollow">online</a>.&nbsp; Svoronos cites 5 examples of 189, but the plate illustration for that type in that online version is next to useless unfortunately. </p><p><br /></p><p>This stater overstruck on a Knossos stater is one of my favorite coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839508[/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 58 (rev like Svoronos 62). O: Europa seated right in plane (<i>platanus</i>) tree, resting her head pensively on her left hand. 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 and Labyrinth of Knossos on obv and rev respectively.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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