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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 5134919, member: 51347"]Really nice, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] ! NICE to be ticked off! Great coin and wonderful checklist. SUPER congrats and a wonderful feeling to add your coin to the collection!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have several coins that satisfy the list, but here is a coin that slammed into my collecting niche, and ticked off my boxes! Price? A song compared to anything from Ancient Etruria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shown before, but I still get the RUSH when I look at this coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2016-5-25_9-9-13-png.504302/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-8-28_23-12-2-png.1166819/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <b>Rasenna, Fufluna, (</b>Etruria, Populonia)</b></p><p>2-½ asses , AR 0.85 g</p><p>3rd century BCE</p><p>Obv: Radiate female head r.; behind, IIC (Retrograde)</p><p>Rev: Blank.</p><p>Ref: EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). Historia Numorum Italy 179.</p><p>NAC Comment: Of the highest rarity, apparently <b>only the second specimen known</b>. Dark patina and about very fine.</p><p>Ex: From the collection of <b>E.E. Clain-Stefanelli</b></p><p><br /></p><p>E.E. CLAIN-STEFANELLI DIES</p><p>ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenburg reported that</p><p>Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli died Oct. 1, 2001 of cardiac</p><p>arrest. Mrs. Stefanelli retired in 2000 as the Senior</p><p>Curator of the National Numismatic Collection in the</p><p>Numismatics Division of the National Museum of</p><p>American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,</p><p>DC.</p><p><br /></p><p>She was at the Smithsonian for forty years, and was</p><p>responsible with her husband Vladimir for organizing and</p><p>building up the National Numismatic Collection. She</p><p>survived a Nazi concentration camp in WWII Europe,</p><p>moved to Rome, and learned numismatics there. In New</p><p>York she and her husband worked for Stack's and started</p><p>the Coin Galleries division there[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 5134919, member: 51347"]Really nice, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] ! NICE to be ticked off! Great coin and wonderful checklist. SUPER congrats and a wonderful feeling to add your coin to the collection! I have several coins that satisfy the list, but here is a coin that slammed into my collecting niche, and ticked off my boxes! Price? A song compared to anything from Ancient Etruria. Shown before, but I still get the RUSH when I look at this coin: [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2016-5-25_9-9-13-png.504302/[/IMG] [B][IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-8-28_23-12-2-png.1166819/[/IMG] [B]Rasenna, Fufluna, ([/B]Etruria, Populonia)[/B] 2-½ asses , AR 0.85 g 3rd century BCE Obv: Radiate female head r.; behind, IIC (Retrograde) Rev: Blank. Ref: EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). Historia Numorum Italy 179. NAC Comment: Of the highest rarity, apparently [B]only the second specimen known[/B]. Dark patina and about very fine. Ex: From the collection of [B]E.E. Clain-Stefanelli[/B] E.E. CLAIN-STEFANELLI DIES ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenburg reported that Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli died Oct. 1, 2001 of cardiac arrest. Mrs. Stefanelli retired in 2000 as the Senior Curator of the National Numismatic Collection in the Numismatics Division of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. She was at the Smithsonian for forty years, and was responsible with her husband Vladimir for organizing and building up the National Numismatic Collection. She survived a Nazi concentration camp in WWII Europe, moved to Rome, and learned numismatics there. In New York she and her husband worked for Stack's and started the Coin Galleries division there[/QUOTE]
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