367, Lot: 96. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas II. 287-278 BC. Æ (25mm, 9.11 g, 1h). Struck circa 282-278 BC. Laureate head of Zeus Hellanios right / Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, with wings spread; A and star to left. CNS 168 Rs 96 R1 1/4 (this coin, illustrated) = Virzi 1789 (this coin); BAR Issue 39; HGC 2, 1449. Good VF, brown patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 1789.

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.