Gortyna was one of the dominant poleis of central Crete, and its coinage from this period reflects the city's position during the turbulent decades surrounding the Social War and Cretan interstate conflicts of the late 3rd century BC. The city maintained enough institutional continuity to strike consistently through periods when many Cretan mints fell silent.
Svoronos's classification of Cretan coinage remains the foundational reference for this series, published in 1890 and still not fully superseded. Die studies since have refined the sequence considerably, but attribution at the individual specimen level still depends heavily on his original groupings.
Gortyna was one of the dominant poleis of central Crete, and its coinage from this period reflects the city's position during the turbulent decades surrounding the Social War and Cretan interstate conflicts of the late 3rd century BC. The city maintained enough institutional continuity to strike consistently through periods when many Cretan mints fell silent.
Svoronos's classification of Cretan coinage remains the foundational reference for this series, published in 1890 and still not fully superseded. Die studies since have refined the sequence considerably, but attribution at the individual specimen level still depends heavily on his original groupings.