Greek Silver Stater of Phaistos Crete
Crete. Phaistos (c.350 B.C.), Silver Stater, 11.60g,. ΦAIΣΣTION , youthful, naked Herakles seated facing three-quarters to left on a lion’s skin spread over a low rock, his head turned to the right and gazing outwards from the coin, he holds his club before him with his left hand and rests his left elbow on his left knee, in the background is a tree set on a base, from which hang a bow and quiver. Rev. Bull butting to right on ground line, its head lowered, all within an olive-wreath (