367, Lot: 93. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Syracuse. Hiketas II. 287-278 BC. Æ (22mm, 7.21 g, 6h). Head of Persephone right, wearing wreath of grain ears; grain stalk behind / Driver in fast biga right; star above. CNS 122 Ds 95 R1 i/1 corr. (this coin, but incorrect citation); BAR Issue 38; HGC 2, 1447; Virzi 1742 (this coin). VF, brown patina, a few flan flaws on obverse.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 1742.

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.