Stater

Phaistos, the Minoan palace city in the Mesara plain, had long faded as a political power by the time this stater was struck, but the polis maintained its mint into the classical period with stubborn independence. The city's coinage is rare by any measure — Phaistos was never a major trading hub in the fourth century, and surviving examples from this series are thinly distributed across collections worldwide.

The Svoronos references narrow this to a small die group, and the de Luynes provenance traces a significant example to one of the nineteenth century's most rigorous private collections.