CRETE, Knossos. Circa 220 BC. Æ 18mm (4.27 g, 3h). Alliance with Gortyna issue. Europa seated right, head left, lifting her drapery, on bull running left; below, two confronted dolphins; border of rays / K-N-Ω-ΣΙΩΝ around, labyrinth; star above. Svoronos,
Numismatique 122; Joy 477; SNG Copenhagen 378; BMC 36. EF, green patina, holed in antiquity. Exceptional and perhaps one of the finest known representations of the labyrinth on this issue.
Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG (Basel, 11 April 1997), lot 102.
