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367, Lot: 108. Estimate $100.
Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Tauromenion. Circa 339/8-336 BC. Æ (23mm, 13.41 g, 1h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Bull left. Campana 1/61 (this coin cited) = Virzi 1991 (this coin); CNS 6; HGC 2, 1578. VF, green patina, chipped around edge.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 1991.

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.