367, Lot: 65. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 200-187 BC. Æ (20mm, 7.14 g, 12h). Head of Dionysos right, wearing ivy wreath / Dionysos, holding kantharos and thyrsos, reclining left in biga drawn by panthers. Casabona 15; BAR Issue 12; CNS 19/10 (this coin, illustrated); HGC 2, 621; Virzi 851 (this coin). VF, brown and green patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 851.

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.