367, Lot: 40. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 425/0-410/06 BC. Æ Tetras (21mm, 9.34 g, 7h). Eagle standing left, tearing at hare / Crab; pellet above, two pellets to right, crayfish below. CNS 60; HGC 2, 141; Virzi 607 (this coin). Near VF, green patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 607.

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.