Stater

Gortyna was one of Crete's most powerful poleis, and its coinage circulated across a island that sat at the intersection of Aegean, Egyptian, and Levantine trade networks. The city's mint was active through a period of significant political turbulence on Crete, when shifting alliances among the major cities frequently disrupted commerce and prompted irregular issue patterns — which likely accounts for the variety designation against the Svoronos corpus.