367, Lot: 110. Estimate $100. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Tauromenion. Circa 265-263 or 213-212 BC. Æ (23mm, 10.49 g, 9h). Head of Herakles, wearing tainia; monogram behind / Bull charging right. Campana 15/13 (this coin) = CNS 20 OS (this coin, illustrated) = Virzi 2034 (this coin); BAR Issue 6; HGC 2, 1579. VF, brown patina, traces of an uncertain undertype.

From the Edgar L. Owen Collection. Ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), 2034.

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.