367, Lot: 67. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Kentoripai. Circa 211-190 BC. Æ Sextans (18mm, 5.19 g, 12h). Draped bust of Demeter right, wearing stephane; grain ear behind / Bird perched on plow; two pellets to left. Campana 5A/a; BAR Issue 4; CNS 7; HGC 2, 637; Virzi 914 (this coin). VF, brown patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 914.

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.