367, Lot: 91. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. Æ (24mm, 10.58 g, 11h). Struck circa 317-310 BC. Head of Persephone left, wearing wreath of grain ears; jug behind / Bull charging left; fish and NK monogram above, fish in exergue. CNS 96 Ds4 R14; BAR Issue 7; HGC 2, 1444; Virzi 1620 (this coin). Near VF, green patina, encrustation on reverse.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 1620.

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.