367, Lot: 64. Estimate $100. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Katane. Circa 200-187 BC. Æ (22mm, 8.98 g, 12h). Horned and laureate head of Zeus-Ammon right / Dikaiosyne standing left, holding scales and cornucopia; three monograms around. Casabona 12; BAR Issue 13; CNS 17/12 (this coin, illustrated); HGC 2, 624; Virzi 862 (this coin). VF, green-brown patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 862.

Thomas Virzi (1881-1974) was an assistant to the renowned Dr. Jacob Hirsch and sold a portion of his renowned 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.