GORTYNA SILVER STATER – EUROPA / BULL ISSUE EX LOCKETT COLLECTION PUBLISHED IN HIS SNG AND LERIDER’S CRETOISES – VF GREEK CRETE COIN (Inv. 19983)

$15,500.00

19983. CRETE. GORTYNA. Ca. 330–270 BC.
Silver Stater, 11.58 g, 27 mm.
Obv. Europa seated right in a tree, resting her head on her arm and holding a branch. Rev. Bull right, head reverted.
Head of Europa right. Rev. Head of bull right within concave field.
Svoronos, Crète Ancienne, 57; Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 57, 13d, pl. XII, 3 = SNG Lockett 2558 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen 440 (same obverse).
Ex Edward J. Waddell (56826) = CNG 123, 5/23/2023, lot 101 = Robert O. Ebert Collection, Stack’s, Bowers, and Ponterio 174, 1/12/2013, lot 5536 = Gemini V, 1/6/2009, lot 582 = Richard Cyril Lockett Collection, Greek Part III, 5/27/1959, lot 2031.
VF, dark gray cabinet patina, with a wonderful pedigree and publication history. The coin is overstruck on a stater of Lyttus, cf. Le Rider, Crétoises, p. XXV, 13.