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.
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.