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Stater
| Issuer | Gortyna |
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| Year | 330 BC - 270 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse description | Europa seated to right within the branches of a plane tree, her body turned slightly forward, lifting the hem of her drapery with her right hand; the gnarled trunk and spreading limbs of the tree fill the field in high relief, rendered in a distinctly naturalistic style characteristic of Cretan coinage. The figure is depicted in three-quarter view with expressive modelling, referencing the mythological episode of Zeus abducting Europa to Crete. No legend or inscription appears in the field. |
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| Reverse description | A bull stands to the right in a vigorous, striding pose with head reverted to look back over its shoulder, rendered in bold high relief with pronounced musculature; a small dolphin swims to the right in the exergue beneath the bull. The composition is enclosed within a beaded border and the field is otherwise plain. The iconography alludes to the myth of Zeus in the guise of a bull carrying Europa, a theme central to the civic identity of Gortyna. |
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| Mint | Gortyna, Crete |
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