367, Lot: 112. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Tauromenion. After 211 BC. Æ (17mm, 3.67 g, 1h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet / Pegasos flying right. Campana 30a/48; BAR Issue 20; CNS 36; HGC 2, 1599; Virzi 2053 (this coin). VF, green patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 2053.

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.