367, Lot: 28. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BRUTTIUM, Petelia. Late 3rd century BC. Æ Sextans (14mm, 2.03 g, 8h). Laureate head of Apollo right; two pellets behind / Artemis advancing left, holding [torch]; palm frond to left. HN Italy 2463; cf. SNG ANS 615; Virzi 370 (this coin). Fine, green patina, edge irregularity.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 370.

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.