Stater

Itanos occupied the far northeastern tip of Crete, a position that made it more commercially oriented toward the Levant and Cyprus than toward the Greek mainland. The city maintained enough independent authority through the fourth and third centuries BC to issue its own silver coinage even as many smaller Cretan poleis surrendered monetary autonomy to larger neighbors. Its staters are among the rarer products of ancient Cretan civic minting — the multiple collection references here reflect how thinly these pieces are distributed across major holdings rather than any abundance in the record.