367, Lot: 44. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Phintias. Tyrant, 287-279 BC. Æ (22mm, 6.47 g, 6h). Head of Akragas left, wearing wreath of reeds / Boar left. BAR Issue 10; CNS 117; HGC 2, 170; Virzi 680 (this coin). VF, green patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 680.

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.