Use this path for Cretan civic issues, local mythological types, overstrikes, and old Svoronos or BMC Crete citations. Svoronos is the main corpus for city-by-city Cretan coinage; BMC Crete gives a specimen-based British Museum catalogue with plates and compact descriptions.
Macdonald’s note is small but useful for questions about Cretan silver weights and standards. Mionnet can help when the clue comes from an older French citation or a dispersed nineteenth-century collection.
Recommended Works
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Numismatics of Ancient Crete Ioannis N. Svoronos · 1890 · French · Specialized Corpus Svoronos’s monumental Cretan corpus organizes the coinages of the island city by city, combining types, legends, weight, fabric, overstrikes, literary evidence, and extensive specimen... Svoronos, Crète - 2
A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Crete and the Aegean Islands Warwick Wroth · 1886 · English · Regional and Civic Catalogue This volume catalogues the British Museum’s holdings from Crete and the Aegean islands. It concentrates on Cretan and insular coinages, including locally distinctive mythological types... 28 plates BMC Crete - 3
The Silver Coinage of Crete: A Metrological Note George Macdonald · 1919 · English · Specialized Corpus Macdonald examines the weights and standards of Cretan silver coinage, using a plate and comparative data to address the relationships among island mints and external monetary systems... 1 plate Macdonald, Crete - 4
Description of Ancient Greek and Roman Medals, vol. 12 (1808) Théodore E. Mionnet · 1808 · French · Specialized Corpus This volume covers the Peloponnese and island coinages, where brief antiquarian descriptions may record rare civic bronzes, local ethnic legends, and mythological types from collections... 39 plates