367, Lot: 45. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Akragas. Circa 279-212 BC. Æ (23mm, 7.06 g, 6h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Warrior advancing right, about to hurl spear. BAR Issue 11; CNS 143/3; HGC 2, 155; Virzi 708 (this coin). VF, green patina, a few scratches on reverse.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 708.

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.