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367, Lot: 7. Estimate $100.
Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCANIA, Metapontion. Circa 300-250 BC. Æ (16mm, 3.56 g, 3h). Eagle standing left, with wings spread; wreath to left / Barley ear and thunderbolt. Johnston 39; HN Italy 1674; Virzi 62 (this coin). VF, dark green patina, some roughness on reverse. Rare.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 62.

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.