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367, Lot: 63. Estimate $100.
Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 204-187 BC. Æ (23mm, 11.55 g, 12h). Janiform head of Serapis; three monograms around / Demeter standing left, holding grain ears and torch. Casabona 10; BAR Issue 9; CNS 14/16 (this coin, illustrated); HGC 2, 619; Virzi 876 (this coin). VF, green patina.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 876.

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.