367, Lot: 47. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Alaisa Archonidea. After 204 BC. Æ (21mm, 5.95 g, 12h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Apollo standing left, holding [laurel branch] and leaning on kithara. Campana 18; BAR Issue 6 (Halaesa); CNS 7; HGC 2, 199; Virzi 742 (this coin). Fine, brown patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 742.

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.