Triton XVIII, Lot: 547. Estimate $10000. Sold for $32500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 330-270 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 11.80 g, 3h). Europa seated half right within branches of a tree, her right hand resting on a branch below, her left arm extended before her / Bull standing right, head reverted. Svoronos, Numismatique 61 (same obv. die as illustration); Le Rider, Crétoises pl. XIII, 4–9 (same dies); SNG Delepierre 2371 (same dies); BMC 17 (same dies); Boston MFA 1275 (same dies); Gulbenkian 564 (same dies). Good VF, even gray tone with iridescence around central devices on obverse, light graze on obverse. Struck from fresh dies with no indication of undertype. Very rare in this exceptional state.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 10 (9 April 1997), lot 230; Numismatica Ars Classica 4 (27 February 1991), lot 125.