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Aversschrift	Greek
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Reversbeschreibung	A bucranium (ox skull) depicted facing front, rendered schematically with prominent horns curving outward and a simplified facial structure. The design fills the flan with minimal surrounding field and no visible legend, conforming to the standard reverse type of Lappa's civic bronze issues. The engraving style is bold and simple, characteristic of provincial Cretan bronze coinage of the Hellenistic period.
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Zusätzliche Informationen	Lappa was one of the inland cities of western Crete, situated near modern Argyroupoli, and maintained its own bronze coinage through much of the Hellenistic period largely independent of the coastal powers that dominated Cretan politics. The city survived the Roman pacification of Crete under Quintus Caecilius Metellus in 67 BC — the terminal date for this issue — partly through early capitulation, a pragmatic move that spared it the destruction visited on Kydonia and other holdouts. SvoronosCr#18 represents one of the smaller module bronzes in Lappa's civic series.