367, Lot: 18. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Hipponion. Early 3rd century BC. Æ (23mm, 8.64 g, 7h). Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with hippocamp / Nike standing left, holding wreath and scepter. HN Italy 2258; SNG ANS 465-7 var. (decoration on helmet); Virzi 246 (this coin). VF, green patina, irregular flan. Rare, particularly with hippocamp ornament rather than serpent or griffin.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 246.

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.