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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
Svoronos 19v.1	\/	Text
Svoronos 19v	Crete, Gortyna AR Drachm. ca 100–80 BC. Bearded head of Zeus or Minos right, in taenia, F under neck truncation / GOPTYNIWN, nude Apollo seated three-quarters left on rock, quiver over shoulder, resting right hand on knee & holding bow in left, Z in right field.	Text
Svoronos 27	Crete, Gortyna AR Stater. ca 350-330 BC. Europa seated left in pensive pose in plane tree / TSMVPOS (retrograde), bull reclining left, head reverted. Le Rider pl. xxvii, 7.	Text
Svoronos 37	Crete, Gortyna AR Drachm. ca 350-330 BC. Head of bull three quarters right / Head of Europa right, hair confined by ampyx & sphendone, outline of round die visible.	Text
Svoronos 52	Crete, Gortyna 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
Svoronos 61	Crete, Gortyna 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
Svoronos 62	Crete, Gortyna AR Stater. ca 320-270 BC. Europa seated right in tree / Bull standing right, head reverted. LeRider 18.	Text
Svoronos 64	Gortyna, Crete, AR Stater. After 430 BC. Europa seated right in tree / Bull walking, head reverted.	Text
Svoronos 81	Crete, Gortyna 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 bite right hind leg & lashing tail, fly below. Le Rider pl. v, 17.	Text
Svoronos 107	Crete, Gortyna. ca 200-67 BC. Æ 24mm. Diademed head of Artemis right; bow & quiver over shoulder / Bull standing left, head right, within wreath. SNG Copenhagen 458.	Text
Svoronos 109	Crete, Gortyna AE17. 300-200 BC. Europa(?) seated r. amid branches of tree, eagle perched behind her; border of rays. Reverse: Europa seated on bull galloping l.; all within wreath.	Text
Svoronos 116	Crete, Gortyna 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
Svoronos 120	Crete, Gortyna. Circa 200-67 BC. Æ 23mm. Laureate head of Zeus right / Europa riding bull left. BMC 66.	Text
Svoronos 143	Crete, Gortyna AR Drachm. ca 250 BC. Diademed head of Zeus or Minos left / Nude warrior standing facing, wreath to left.	Text
Svoronos 171cf	Crete, Gortyna AR Drachm. ca 100-80 BC. Bearded head of Zeus right, in taenia, H under neck truncation / GOPTYNIWN, Apollo seated three quarters left on rock, resting right hand on knee & holding bow in left, A in right field. Cf Svoronos 171 & 174 (different letters in reverse field).	Text
Svoronos 175	Crete, Gortyna AR Drachm. ca 100-80 BC. Bearded head of Zeus right / GOPTYNIW-N, Apollo seated three-quarters left on rock, resting right hand on knee & holding bow in left.	Text
Sear #3186	Gortyna, Crete, AR Drachm. 2nd-1st century BC, diademed head of Minos or Zeus / GORTUNIWN, naked male figure advancing front, hand on shield, holding spear, wreath in field to left, border of rays. Svoronos 144.
Caligula - RPC 1022	Caligula & Germanicus Æ20 of Gortyna, Crete. GAION KAISAPA GEPMANIKON SEBASTON, bare head of Caligula right / GEPMANIKON KAISAPA ERI AYGOYPEINW GOPTY, bare head of Germanicus right.
See also:	Perseus Project database, coins of Gortyna
	Search for Crete, Gortyna at CoinArchives.com
	Entry for Crete, Gortyna on the Digital Historia Numorum
	Search for Gortyna in the British SNG Volumes' Database at the Fitzwilliam Museum
	Search for Gortyna at AncientImports.com
	Search for Gortyna at Incitatus Coins

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