Stater
© Leu Numismatik (1991-2007)
Features
| Issuer |
Phaistos
(Crete (ancient))  |
|---|---|
| Type | Standard circulation coins |
| Years | 360 BC - 340 BC |
| Value | Stater (2) |
| Currency | Aeginetic drachm |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 12.05 g |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Hammered |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 475317 |
| References | SvoronosCr# 2 Ioannis Nikolaus Svoronos; 1890. Numismatique de la Crète ancienne. Protat frères, Paris, France.Ernest Babelon; 1914. Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines / Partie 2.3. Description historique: Comprenant les monnaies de la Grèce centrale et méridionale aux Ve et IVe siècles avant J.-C.. Éditions Ernest Leroux, Paris, France. , BMC Greek# 2 British Museum (publisher). A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (28 volumes). Colin Mackennal Kraay; 1976. Archaic and Classical Greek Coins. University of California Press, Oakland, California, United States.SILVER ERC (https://silver.knowledge.wiki/SILVER) , SNG Lockett# 2583Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson, Richard Cyril Lockett. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Volume III - The Lockett Collection. Oxford University Press, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). , Weber# 4546 Hermann David Weber, Leonard Forrer. Descriptive catalogue of the collection of Greek coins formed by Sir Hermann Weber M.D. 1823-1918. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom (5 volumes). Georges Le Rider; 1966. Monnaies Crétoises du Ve au Ier siècle av. J.-C = Cretan Coins from the 5th to the 1st Century BC. École Française d'Athènes, Paris, France. |
Obverse
Europa, seated on rock to left, her left hand in her lap and her right hand outstretched towards the forepart of a bull advancing to right.
Script: Greek (retrograde)
Lettering: CASMTSO
Reverse
Hermes seated to left on rocky ground, with his petasos hanging behind his neck and holding kerykeion in his right hand and resting his left on the ground; on rocks to left and right, bushes.
Mint
Phaestus, Crete, GreeceSee also
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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From the collections of N.B. Hunt, II, Sotheby's 21 June 1990, 444