MK-B | Gortyn ca. 450-400 v. Chr.

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Gortyn ca. 450-400 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 242, BM-32/026 The Ancient World to the End of the 3rd Cent. AD
Obverse	Europa auf dem Stier nach r.
Reverse	ΓOPTVNOΣ TO CAΣMA [retrograd]. Löwenkopf von vorne gesehen in einem quadratischem Rahmen. Das Ganze als vertieftes Quadrat.
Class/status	City
Date	ca. 450-400 v. Chr. Classical
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 11,23 g; 20 mm; 12 h
Production	struck
Mint	Gortyna
Region	Crete
Country	Greece
Publications	Friedländer - von Sallet Nr. 42; J. N. Svoronos, Numismatique de la Crète ancienne (1890) 158 Nr. 1 Taf. 12, 21 (dieses Stück); K. Regling, Die antike Münze als Kunstwerk (1924) 126 Nr. 174 Taf. 7, 174 (dieses Stück).
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Vendor (to prev. Owner)	George Eastwood
Accession	1873 Fox
previous Owner	Charles Richard Fox 1857 - 1873
Object number	18200142
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