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| Svoronos 2 | Crete, Phaestus AR Stater. ca 360–350 BC. CASMTSO (retrograde), Europa seated left on rock, extending right hand to forepart of bull approaching right, with one horn growing downward / Hermes seated left on rock, holding caduceus in right hand and resting left on rock. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 6 | Phaestus, Crete. AR Stater. Ca. 350–330 BC. Winged giant Talon advancing left, looking right, throwing rock, dog standing right between his feet / Forepart of bull right. Svoronos 6; Le Rider 11-12. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 9 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. 22 mm, 11.54 g. 400-360 BC. Herakles, naked, standing facing, looking right, holding bow and club, lionskin hanging in left field, grain ear at lower right / The Cretan bull walking left with feet bound by ropes, within wreath. Svoronos 9. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 13 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. 24 mm, 11.39 g. 400-360 BC. Herakles, naked, standing facing, leaning on club, holding lionskin in left hand, coiled serpent in left field, plane tree in right field / The Cretan bull walking left, its feet constrained with long ropes. Svoronos 13. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 14 | Phaistos, AR Stater. 24 mm, 11.90 g. 400-360 BC. Herakles, naked, standing facing, leaning on club, holding lionskin in left hand, coiled serpent in left field, plane tree in right field / The Cretan bull walking right, its feet constrained with long ropes. Svoronos 14; Le Rider, Monnaies Cretoise, plate IV, 1. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 17 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. 22 mm, 11.54 g. 400-360 BC. Herakles, naked, standing facing, looking right, holding bow and club, lionskin hanging in left field, coiled serpent above laurel branch in right field / The Cretan bull walking left with feet bound by ropes, within wreath. Svoronos 17. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 21 | Phaistos, AR Stater. 24 mm, 11.88 g. 400-360 BC. Herakles, naked, standing facing, holding bow and club, lionskin hanging in left field / ΦAIΣTIΩN, The Cretan bull grazing or half-butting left, its feet constrained by ropes. Svoronos 21; BMC 4. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 24 | Phaistos, Crete, AR stater, 4th century BC. 11.45g. Herakles, naked, standing facing, looking right, holding club in left hand and bow in right, ivy leaf and lionskin to left, four dots around. / Bull’s head facing within incuse circle. Svoronos 24; Philipsen 1525 (this coin); Le Rider XXI, 11-12; Spink vol. XCV, 2841. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 46 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. 22 mm, 11.70 g. 330-320 BC. Herakles, naked, standing facing, looking right, holding bow, wielding club to strike a coined serpent to right / Bull walking right within wreath. Svoronos 46; SNG Cop 517; Mionnet II, 251. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 48 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. 23 mm, 11.36 g. 280 BC. Herakles, nude, standing slightly right, holding bow across his waist and preparing to swing his club in his right hand, at a coiled serpent on the right / Bull running left. Svoronos 48; Le Rider 8; BMC 10; Dewing 2076. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 53 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. 322-300 BC. 27 mm, 11.52 g. ΦAIΣTIΩN, Herakles standing left, wearing lionskin, seizing one of the heads of the Lernean Hydra and wielding club / Bull standing left. Svoronos 53. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 54 | Phaistos, Crete, AR stater. 322-300 BC. 11.50 g. Herakles, naked, standing right brandishing club, one foot on the Hydra's tail and grasping the hydra with his left hand / ΦAIΣTIΩN, bull walking right. Svoronos 54; Le Rider Pl. XXIII, 23. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 58 | Phaistos, Crete, AR stater. 330-300 BC. 12.20 g. Herakles standing left, naked but for lionskin, grasping the hydra and wielding club / ΦAIΣTIΩN, bull standing right. Svoronos 58; Le Rider Pl. XXIII, 22. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 59 | Phaistos, Crete. AR Stater. ca 320–300 BC. Herakles, naked but for lionskin over left arm, seen from behind, fighting the Hydra of Lerna; wielding club in his right hand and holding one of the Hydra’s serpent heads with his left; crab between his legs / ΦAIΣTIΩN, bull prancing right, head facing. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 60 | Phaistos, Crete. ca 320-300 BC. AR Stater. Herakles, naked, standing left, wielding club and grasping the Hydra; lionskin draped over left arm / ΦAIΣTIΩN, Bull butting left. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 66 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. Mid 4th century BC. 27 mm, 11.41 g. Herakles standing right, wearing lionskin, seizing one of the heads of the Lernean Hydra with left hand and wielding club with right; bow and bowcase in left field / Bull standing left. Svoronos 66, pl. XXIV, 23; Le Rider pl. XXIII, 11; BMFA Suppl. 125. | Text | Image |
| Svoronos 67 | Phaistos, Crete, AR Stater. 23 mm, 11.21 g. 280 BC. TAΛΩN beneath winged Talos standing front, head facing, about to hurl stone held in hand, another stone in the other hand / ΦAIΣTIΩN, Bull butting right. Svoronos 67; BMC 20; LeRider 62. | Text | Image |
| Sear SG 3208 | Crete, Phaistos. c350-300 BC. AE17. Winged Talos advancing right, hurling a stone with his right hand, holding another stone in his left hand / ΦAIC-TIΩN, hound walking right, sniffing the ground. Svoronos 74, SNG Cop 520, BMC 27-28. | Text | Image |
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