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367, Lot: 62. Estimate $100.
Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 211-206/4 BC. Æ Dichalkon (16mm, 3.44 g, 6h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Aphrodite standing right, holding dove; II to right. Casabona 7; BAR Issue 6; CNS 24; HGC 2, 612; Virzi 837 (this coin). VF, green patina.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 837.

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.