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367, Lot: 109. Estimate $100.
Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Tauromenion. Circa 336-317 BC. Æ (16mm, 2.33 g, 6h). Head of Hera left, wearing polos / Grape bunch on vine. Campana 9/25 (this coin, illustrated) = CNS 10/2 corr. (this coin, but incorrect illustration) = Virzi 2024 (this coin); HGC 2, 1597. Near VF, green patina.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 2024.

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.