367, Lot: 36. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Aitna. 354/3-344 BC. Æ Hexas (19mm, 6.22 g, 7h). Head of Persephone right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Reined horse galloping right. Campana 5b/8 (this coin, illustrated) = CNS 5/3 (this coin, illustrated) = Virzi 532 (this coin); Castrizio Series I, 2; HGC 2, 74. Near VF, dark green patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 532.

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.