345, Lot: 37. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 220 BC. Æ (12.5mm, 2.14 g, 10h). 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 i, pl. 14, 4; Svoronos, Numismatique 127; SNG Copenhagen 451-2; Traeger 93b. VF, dark brown patina, a little off center, softly struck on reverse. Rare.

From the Colin E. Pitchfork Collection. Ex Glendining’s (7 November 1979), lot 31 (part of).