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| Issuer | Lyttos (Crete (ancient)) |
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| Year | 300 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (-300) |
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Lyttos was among the most militarily aggressive of the Cretan poleis, and its coinage reflects a city that punched well above its size. The city was ultimately destroyed around 220 BC by Knossos and its Aetolian allies — an act of such deliberate brutality that even ancient sources treated it as exceptional. Staters from this mint therefore have a hard terminus: production ceased with the city itself.
The Svoronos reference places this piece within a well-documented but numerically small series. Weber 4523 is among the more frequently cited parallels in auction literature for this type.