367, Lot: 26. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Petelia. Late 3rd century BC. Æ (20mm, 8.21 g, 11h). Veiled head of Demeter right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Zeus standing facing, head right, hurling thunderbolt and holding scepter; star of six rays to left, Ξ to right. HN Italy 2454; SNG ANS 602 var. (N in place of Ξ); Virzi 386 (this coin). VF, green-brown patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 386.

Thomas Virzi (1881-1974) was an assistant to the renowned Dr. Jacob Hirsch and sold a portion of his collection of Sicilian and Southern Italian bronzes with that firm in 1907. Additional coins were sold privately after his death, as well as in Leu 6 (8 May 1973) and Malloy XVII (1 December 1980). The only complete record of his important collection is a series of plates illustrating 2238 pieces.