Watch List notes:

Cycladic Islands, Melos, silver stater, c. 420-416 BC, apple with stem, rev., ΜΑΛ – ΙΟΝ, ram's head facing right, 14.12g, die axis 7.00, some pitting and punch mark on obverse, very fine to extremely fine, extremely rare. This coin published: Jameson, R., La Trouvaille de Milo, Revue Numismatique 1909, p. 193, 21 and pl. 6, 21; Kraay, C.M., The Melos Hoard of 1907 Re-examined, NC 1964, 26 (a); Traité 1378. Other references: Jameson 1296, same dies; Kraay/Hirmer 531. Provenance: The Melos Hoard, 1907 (IGCH 27); S. Pozzi Collection, Paris; Naville I, Lucerne, 14 March 1921, lot 2039; H. de Nanteuil Collection, Paris; Bank Leu 15, Zurich, 4 May 1976, lot 254; Münzen und Medaillen 76, Basel, 19 September 1991, lot 740; Gerhard Hirsch 275, Munich, 22 September 2011, lot 3641. Note: From one of the best-known, well-published and important finds of the early 20th century: "one of those dramatic hoards which at a stroke has restored to us a large group of issues wholly unknown from any other source." (Kraay, NC, 1964, p.1). Discovered on the island by two children in the autumn of 1907, R. Jameson published eight coins in 1908 and a year later accounted for and published seventy-nine coins. Approximately half the hoard went into the collections of Jameson himself and Pozzi. Apart from this find, few Melian coins have subsequently been discovered and, of the ram's head type Kraay listed four examples, two of which are in London and Munich. (10000 - 15000 GBP)