GORTYNA SILVER STATER – EUROPA AND BULL ISSUE EX ADOLPH HESS 1930 AUCTION – VF GREEK CRETE COIN (Inv. 20828)

$3,750.00

20828. CRETE. GORTYNA. Ca. 330-270 BC.
Silver Stater, 11.58 g, 24 mm.
Obv. Europa seated right in a tree, resting her head on her arm and holding a branch. Rev. Bull right, head reverted.
Svoronos, Crète Ancienne, 66; Le Rider, Cretoises, no. 23, pl. XIV, 8-15 (same dies).
Ex Adolph Hess 202, 10/28/1930, lot 2528.
VF, minor surface roughness, with a wonderful early pedigree.