Itanos occupied the northeastern tip of Crete, a position that made it one of the island's more active maritime trading communities during the fourth century BC. The city maintained enough independence and commercial weight to strike its own silver coinage at a time when many smaller Cretan poleis had abandoned autonomous issue entirely. These staters circulated within regional trade networks connecting eastern Crete to the Aegean and beyond.
Svoronos's attribution to this type remains the primary reference; die studies since have done little to substantially revise his groupings.
Itanos occupied the northeastern tip of Crete, a position that made it one of the island's more active maritime trading communities during the fourth century BC. The city maintained enough independence and commercial weight to strike its own silver coinage at a time when many smaller Cretan poleis had abandoned autonomous issue entirely. These staters circulated within regional trade networks connecting eastern Crete to the Aegean and beyond.
Svoronos's attribution to this type remains the primary reference; die studies since have done little to substantially revise his groupings.