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367, Lot: 61. Estimate $100.
Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 216/5-206 BC. Æ Chalkous (18mm, 5.35 g, 12h). Jugate busts of Serapis and Isis / Apollo standing slightly left, leaning on column, holding laurel branch and bow. Casabona 1; BAR Issue 2; CNS 22; HGC 2, 609; Virzi 826 (this coin). VF, brown patina.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 826.

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.