Tridrachm - Claudius

Claudius reorganized Cyrenaica and Crete as a unified senatorial province, and the civic coinage that emerged under his reign from uncertain Cretan mints reflects the administrative ambiguity of that arrangement — no single city commanded enough authority to dominate the regional silver output. The issuing city for this denomination remains unresolved in the literature, with attributions contested between Gortyna and Knossos across decades of scholarship.

The tridrachm module is itself an anomaly for the province at this period, sitting awkwardly between Attic and Rhodian weight standards.