367, Lot: 128. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREEK. Magna Graecia & Sicily. Lot of four (4) bronze of Syracuse. Includes: (a) Timoleon and the Third Democracy. Æ 18mm. Head of Apollo / Pegasos. HGC 2, 1486 (Agathokles); Virzi 1599 (this coin) // (b) Agathokles. Period I. Head of Persephone / Bull butting. HGC 2, 1489 // (c) Period II. Hemilitron. Head of Athena / Horseman. HGC 2, 1491 // (d) As last. Head of young Herakles / Bull butting; club above. HGC 2, 1492 . Good Fine. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Four (4) coins in lot.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 1599 (coin [a]).

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.