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367, Lot: 54. Estimate $100.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Eryx. Circa 420-416 BC. Æ (13mm, 3.01 g, 6h). Female head right / Hound standing left, head lowered. Campana 25/5 = Virzi 964 (this coin); CNS 4; HGC 2, 322. Good Fine, dark green patina. Rare.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 964.

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.