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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3563299, member: 90666&quot;]You&#039;ll just have to believe NAC/Naville on this. After all you can&#039;t prove that any coin from any auction is from any given collection since collections aren&#039;t (generally) published except in their eventual auction sale catalogues. If the NAC or Naville sale listing says it&#039;s from Clain-Steffanelli, then it is. Such a well-reputed auction house isn&#039;t going to buy a coin at a CNG sale last month and then say it&#039;s from Clain Steffanelli (who died I think in 2001) if it isn&#039;t. If any further reassurance is needed, a small number of Clain Steffanelli coins are illustrated in her book &quot;Life in Republican Rome&quot;. I own a couple of those &quot;Life in Republican Rome&quot; coins. NAC didn&#039;t cite that book as they weren&#039;t then aware the coins were illustrated. So they said &quot;Clain-Steffanelli&quot; on their word, and the proofs arrived later. Also your coin has a typical old collection toning. Some of the Clain Steffanelli coins that I own seem to have been bought by her in auctions or fixed price lists from the 1960s to 1980s. For others I haven&#039;t found prior provenances but I guess she bought them retail. I have no doubts that they came from her collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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