Æ26 ΤΑΥΡΙΑΔΑΣ

Cnossus maintained its mint through the chaotic decades following Rome's annexation of Crete in 67 BC, issuing bronze coinage under local magistrates whose names — including ΤΑΥΡΙΑΔΑΣ — appear as the controlling authority. The city's status as a Roman colony, formally established as Colonia Iulia Nobilis Cnossus likely under Augustus, makes the precise dating of late republican-era bronzes from this mint genuinely contested; some scholars place magistrate issues like this one in the colonial transition period rather than firmly within the pre-colonial civic series.