367, Lot: 70. Estimate $100. Sold for $151. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Kephaloidion. Circa 208-200 BC. Æ (19mm, 6.11 g, 12h). Laureate head of Herakles right / Lion’s skin, club, and quiver. Campana 9a/27 (this coin) = CNS 10/3 (this coin, illustrated) = Virzi 926 (this coin); cf. BAR Issue 1; HGC 2, 646. Good Fine, brown patina, uneven strike.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 926.

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.