Stater

Axos (also rendered Axos or Oaxos) was a polis of the Cretan interior, situated in the Mylopotamos valley, and among the more prolific coin-issuing cities of ancient Crete despite its distance from the island's major coastal centers. Its silver staters belong to a tradition of Cretan coinage that operated largely outside the dominant weight standards of the Aegean mainland, adhering instead to local conventions that make attribution without provenance genuinely difficult.