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367, Lot: 31. Estimate $100.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. Circa 351-280 BC. Æ (20mm, 6.91 g, 5h). Facing lion’s mask / Laureate head of Apollo left; grape bunch behind. HN Italy 2534b; SNG ANS 690; Virzi 416 (this coin). Near VF, green patina.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 416.

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.