367, Lot: 15. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, The Brettii. Circa 214-211 BC. Æ Unit – Drachm (21mm, 7.34 g, 3h). Laureate head of Zeus right; grain ear behind / Eagle standing left, with wings spread; cornucopia to left. Scheu, Bronze 13; HN Italy 1978; Virzi 153 (this coin). Good VF, green patina, light roughness.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 153.

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.