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367, Lot: 66. Estimate $100.
Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Kentoripai. Circa 211-204 BC. Æ Quadrans (20mm, 4.22 g, 12h). Draped bust of Artemis, wearing stephane, with bow and quiver over shoulder / Tripod; three pellets to left. Campana 4; BAR Issue 3; CNS 6; HGC 2, 636; Virzi 908 (this coin). VF, chipped green patina.


From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 908.

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.