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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3133045, member: 57495&quot;]Coincidentally, I just showed my two priciest coins in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/whos-that-girl.319816/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/whos-that-girl.319816/">this thread</a> of [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]&#039;s yesterday.&nbsp; But, you&#039;re right that valuable doesn&#039;t have to be the most expensive, or even the most beautiful, for that matter.&nbsp; This junky mess of a Gortyna stater struck over a Knossos stater only cost a fraction of those, but it&#039;s by far the dearest and most irreplaceable coin in my collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]799454[/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 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><i>Notes: Overstruck on a stater of Knossos, circa 425-360 BC (Svoronos 23), with undertypes of the Minotaur and Labyrinth of Knossos visible. </i></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gortyna-stater-bull-in-the-labyrinth.285907/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gortyna-stater-bull-in-the-labyrinth.285907/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/gortyna-stater-bull-in-the-labyrinth.285907/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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