367, Lot: 38. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Aitna. Circa 208-205 BC. Æ Sextans (16mm, 3.57 g, 12h). Head of Persephone right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Filleted cornucopia; two pellets to left. Campana 10c/22 (this coin) = CNS 10/7 (this coin, illustrated) = Virzi 545 (this coin); BAR Issue 2; HGC 2, 70. VF, green patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 545.

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.