Tetradrachm

Features

Issuer	Gortyna (Crete (ancient))
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	85 BC
Value	Tetradrachm (4)
Currency	Attic drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	15.82 g
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 436911
References	SvoronosCr# 183 Ioannis Nikolaus Svoronos; 1890. Numismatique de la Crète ancienne. Protat frères, Paris, France. , Jameson# 2521 Robert Jameson. Collection R. Jameson. Feuardent, Paris, France (4 volumes). , SNG Lockett# 2565 Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes).

Obverse

Head of Athena Parthenos right, wearing triple-crested Attic helmet decorated with four foreparts of horses and a Pegasus; below, B.

Script: Greek

Lettering: B

Reverse

Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; in right field, bull butting right. All within olive wreath.

Script: Greek

Lettering:
ΓO P
TY NI
Ω NA
ME
PN

Mint

Gortyn, Crete, Greece

Comments

Svoronos 183 and pl. 16, 24; Le Rider, Melanges Cain, 5a and pl. 3, 8.

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