345, Lot: 35. Estimate $75. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 220 BC. Æ (12mm, 1.73 g, 12h). Diademed head of Zeus right within circle of dots / Europa riding bull galloping left, holding billowing veil floating above; all within circle of dots. Jackson h, pl. 14, 3; Svoronos, Numismatique 127; SNG Copenhagen 451-2; Traeger 93b (this coin, illustrated). Good Fine, green and brown patina, some earthen deposits, softly struck on reverse. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Dr. Burkhard Traeger Collection (Künker 136, 10 March 2008), lot 93 (part of).