Overstruck on Kyrene – Illustrated in Le Rider

CNG 109, Lot: 135. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CRETE, Gortyna. Circa 330-270 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 11.98 g, 11h). Europa seated half-right in tree, her hands raised, holding onto branches / Bull standing left, its head turned right, warding off fly from one of its rear hooves. Svoronos, Numismatique 65 (same obv. die as illustration); Le Rider, Crétoises, p. 26, 128 (hoard citation), p. 75, 49e, and pl. XVII, 21 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; BMC 15 (same dies). VF, toned, overstruck on an issue of Kyrene with types silphion plant / head of Ammon.

Ex Elsen 88 (10 June 2006), lot 108; 1953 Phaestus region Hoard (IGCH 152), no. 128.