[Svoronos 19v]Gortyna, in south central Crete
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| BMC 74 | Gortyna, Crete, AE12, 2.55 g. ca. 200-67 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right with hair in thick locks down neck, border of dots / ΓOΡ above bull butting right, head facing. BMC 74; SNG Cop 454; Lindgren 1747. | Text | Image |
| Price Gortyn 129-148 | Gortyna, Crete, AR drachm, ca. 98-94 BC, 17 mm, 3.14 g. Diademed head of Zeus left. / ΓOΡTINI-ΩN, warrior, naked, standing front, holding shield and spear. (Possibly an overstruck A in upper left field). Price Gortyn hoard, 129-148. (Svoronos 144 var, rev. break). | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 16 | Crete. Gortyna AR Drachm. ca 450-425 BC. Bull reclining right, head reverted / Facing lion mask in shallow incuse square with linear square border. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 19v | Crete, Gortyna AR Drachm. ca 100–80 BC. Bearded head of Zeus or Minos right, in taenia, Φ under neck truncation / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, nude Apollo seated three-quarters left on rock, quiver over shoulder, resting right hand on knee and holding bow in left, Z in right field. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 27 | Gortyna, Crete AR Stater. ca 350-330 BC. Europa seated left in pensive pose in plane tree / TΣMVΠOΣ (retrograde), bull reclining left, head reverted. Le Rider pl. xxvii, 7. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 37 | Gortyna, Crete AR Drachm. ca 350-330 BC. Head of bull three quarters right / Head of Europa right, hair confined by ampyx and sphendone, outline of round die visible. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 52 | Gortyna, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-270 BC. Europa seated right in tree, head resting on her left hand / Bull standing right, head reverted. Le Rider 4. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 57 | Gorytos, Crete. AR didrachm, 24 mm. 320-270 BC. No legend, woman sitting right in a pensive attitude in a tree with few leaves, her head in her left hand. / No legend, bull standing left, head turned back. Svoronos 57. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 61 | Gortyna, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-270 BC. Europa seated right in tree, lifting her drapery with her left hand / Bull standing right, head reverted. BMC 17. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 62 | Gortyna, Crete AR Stater. ca 320-270 BC. Europa seated right in tree / Bull standing right, head reverted. LeRider 18. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 64 | Gortyna, Crete, AR Stater. After 430 BC. Europa seated right in tree / Bull walking, head reverted. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 70 | Gorytos, Crete. AR stater or didrachm, 25 mm. 320-270 BC. 11.42 g. Female, naked to waist, sitting facing, head on one side, in a tree with branches in an orderly pattern around her, holding eagle-tipped sceptre in her left hand and a bird on her knee with her right. / No legend, bull standing right, head turned back, bee or fly below. Svoronos 70; Le Rider 67; Napoli 7640; Paris 2620; Luynes 2342. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 81 | Gortyna, Crete AR Stater. ca 300-280 BC. Europa seated three-quarters right in plane tree, assaulted by Zeus in form of eagle / Heifer standing right, turning head to scratch it wîth its right hind leg and lashing tail, fly below. Le Rider pl. v, 17. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 90 | Gorytos, Crete. AR drachm, 19 mm. 320-270 BC. 5.55 g. Female head right, wreathed with reeds, wearing earring and necklace. / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, bull standing left, scratching itself with its back hoof. Fly below. Svoronos 90. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 103 | Gorytos, Crete. AR stater or didrachm, 25 mm. 320-270 BC. Female, naked to waist, sitting facing, head on one side, in a tree with fern-like branches in an orderly pattern around her, her left arm bent. AΡ-IΣ in two lines in lower left field. / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, bull standing right, head turned back, star below. Svoronos 103. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 107 | Gortyna, Crete. ca 200-67 BC. AE 24mm. Diademed head of Artemis right; bow and quiver over shoulder / Bull standing left, head right, within wreath. SNG Copenhagen 458. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 109 | Gortyna, Crete, AE18, 250-221 BC. 4.99 g. (ΓO-Ρ across fields), Europa seated right in the branches of a tree, raising her drapery, eagle standing to left. / (ΓOΡTYNI-ΩN around and below), Europa seated on bull galloping left, within wreath. Svoronos 109; BMC 45-46; Paris 2654-2656; Mionnet II, 187; SNG Cop 447. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 116 | Gortyna, Crete AR Drachm. Circa 3rd Century BC. Laureate head of Zeus right; c/m of bull right / Europa riding bull right; c/m of head of Artemis right. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 120 | Gortyna, Crete. Circa 200-67 BC. AE 23mm. Laureate head of Zeus right / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, Europa riding bull left. Svoronos 120; BMC 66. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 137 | Gortyna, Crete, AE14, civic issue, ca 200 BC. Laureate head of Apollo right. / ΓOΡ-TYN above and beneath bull butting right, head facing. Svoronos 137; SNG Cop 454. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 143 | Gortyna, Crete, AR Drachm. 94-87 BC. 2.56 g. Diademed head of Zeus or Minos left. / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, naked warrior standing facing, legs astride, holding spear and resting left hand on shield, wreath in left field, thunderbolt below, all within a radiate border. Svoronos 143; Klein 227 (this coin). | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 144 | Gortyna, Crete, AR Drachm. 267-200 BC. 4.55 g. Diademed head of Zeus or Minos left. / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, naked warrior standing facing, legs astride, holding spear and resting left hand on shield, wreath in left field, all within a radiate border. Svoronos 144; BMC 54. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 147 | Gortyna, Crete, AR Drachm. 267-200 BC. 4.7 g. Diademed head of Zeus or Minos right. / ΓOΡTYNI-ΩN, naked warrior standing facing, legs astride, holding spear and resting left hand on shield, A in left field, all within a radiate border. Svoronos 147. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 151 | Gortyna, Crete, AR Drachm. 18 mm, 267-200 BC. 3 g. Diademed head of Zeus or Minos right, A beneath head. / ΓOΡTY-NIΩN, naked warrior standing facing, legs astride, holding spear and resting left hand on shield, Θ in left field, all within a radiate border. Svoronos 151; BMC 55. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 170 | Gortyna, Crete AR Drachm. ca 100-80 BC. Diademed head of Zeus right. / ΓOΡTYNIΩN above Apollo seated half left on rock, resting right foot on a higher rock, right hand on his knee and holding bow in left, B in right field. Svoronos 170. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 171cf | Gortyna, Crete AR Drachm. ca 100-80 BC. Bearded head of Zeus right, in taenia, H under neck truncation / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, Apollo seated three quarters left on rock, resting right hand on knee and holding bow in left, A in right field. Cf Svoronos 171 and 174 (different letters in reverse field). | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 175 | Gortyna, Crete AR Drachm. ca 100-80 BC. Bearded head of Zeus right / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, Apollo seated three-quarters left on rock, resting right hand on knee and holding bow in left. | Text | Image |
| Sear SG 3186 | Gortyna, Crete, AR Drachm. 2nd-1st century BC, diademed head of Minos or Zeus left / ΓOΡTYNIΩN, naked male figure walking left, head facing, hand on shield, holding spear, wreath in field to left, border of rays. Svoronos 144; BMC 54. | Text | Image |
| RPC 1022 | Caligula and Germanicus AE20 of Gortyna, Crete. ΓAION KAIΣAΡA ΓEΡMANIKON ΣEBAΣTON, bare head of Caligula right / ΓEΡMANIKON KAIΣAΡA EΡI AYΓOYΡEINΩ ΓOΡTY, bare head of Germanicus right. | Text | Image | Text | Image |
| For interest: | A decree forbidding the use of silver obols after the introduction of bronze coins in Gortyna | ||
| Svoronos Refs: | Svoronos: Numismatique De La Crète Ancienne free pdf download on archive.org | ||
| Entry for Crete, Gortyna on the Digital Historia Numorum | |||
