Watch List notes:

Crete, Arkadia, silver stater, c. 320 BC, head of Zeus Ammon right wearing ram's horn, rev., ΑΡΚΑ – [Δ]ΩΝ, Athena standing facing, holding spear and shield, 10.66g, die axis 6.00, with some areas of weakness, good very fine, toned, extremely rare. This coin published: Le Rider p. 28, note 4. Other References: Le Rider pl. VI, 6. Provenance: Hess-Leu 15, Lucerne, 7 April 1960, lot 188; Bank Leu 13, Zurich, 29 April 1975, lot 177; with Jean-Bruno Vigne, Paris, 1980s; Gemini III, New York, 9 January 2007, lot 159; Manhattan Sale I, New York, 5 January 2010, lot 68; The Bru Sale, Auction 3, Brussels, 6 May 2011, lot 38. Note: Although excavations in the 1920s revealed its Minoan origins and inscriptions point to its importance in the second century, Arkadia was a city in central Crete about which ancient historians have left us scant information. Polybius (4.53) notes that Arkadia sided with Lyttos in its opposition to Cnossos during the Cretan civil wars of the later third century. In the Bru Sale in 2011 this coin was described as "apparently the fourth known, and the only one in private hands". Le Rider recorded only three: the example in the 1953 Cretan hoard, another in the British Museum (post BMC) and the present coin. Svoronos was unaware of any staters but recorded a small number of drachms (Sv. pl. II, 16-18). (2000 - 3000 GBP)