bgr_977205 - CRETE - GORTYNA Statère

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Type : Statère

Date: c. 360-322

Mint name / Town : Gortyne

Metal : silver

Diameter : 27 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 11,63 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Monnaie quasi TTB+. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

BMC.25 var. - GC.3174 var. - Sv.53 pl. XIII-23 - Le Rider, Crète27 g pl. XV-10

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la collection du docteur B. Odaert et de la vente Vinchon du 22/04/1977, lot n° 246. Avec son certficat d’exporation n° 225006

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Europe à demi nue assise sur un arbre, la main droite appuyée sur une branche, le bras soutenant sa tête.

Reverse

Reverse description : Taureau debout à droite, détournant la tête à gauche.

Reverse legend : GORTUNIWN.

Reverse translation : (de Gortyne).

Historical background

CRETE - GORTYNA

(4th century BC)

Gortyn, the second city of Crete, is in the center of the fertile Mesara plain. Its coinage begins around 450 BC. It alludes to the abduction of Europa by Zeus, transformed in this case into a bull to escape the jealousy of Hera and conquer the nymph of which he had, among other , Minos. After a brilliant period of economic development in the 4th and 3rd centuries, the island of Crete fell under Lagide influence. Economic stake for two centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean, victim of acts of piracy, after a long period of political decadence, Gortyne was taken by the Romans during the invasion of Crete in 67-66 BC.

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