367, Lot: 90. Estimate $100. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. 317-289 BC. Æ (12mm, 1.68 g, 11h). Struck circa 317-310 BC. Laureate head of Apollo left; pellet behind / Recumbent hound left, head right; H(?) above, Λ in exergue. CNS 149 Ds 67 Rs 96 R1 2 (this coin, illustrated) = Virzi 1607 (this coin); BAR Issue 6; HGC 2, 1525. Near VF, green and brown patina.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 1607.

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.