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object type: Greek coin
- production technique: struck
- issuing authority: city: Knosos - ΚΝΩΣΟΣ
- period / date: ca. 425-360 BC
- material: silver
- denomination: stater
- diameter: 23-27 mm
- weigh
A silver stater minted at Knossos between 425 and 360 BC displays the Minotaur on one face and a labyrinth pattern on the other, proving that the city's residents identified themselves with the myth centuries after the palace fell. © ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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