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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 6610829, member: 51347&quot;]Very nice, John.&nbsp; Cool coin and great provenance.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have several coins from various famous collections.&nbsp; Most of them I acquired not really for their provenance, rather that they were VERY cool coins.&nbsp; I found out later of their provenance.&nbsp; It made me feel good that what was important to me, was also an important coin for a &quot;famous collector&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoy my various coins from EE Clain-Stefanelli, because of her 40 tenor at the Smithsonian.&nbsp; She must have seen SO many coins, since she built up the Smithsonian collection to over 1,000,000 coins.&nbsp; And, for her to have added coins to her personal collection must had been special to her.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-7-25_18-29-31-png.1150348/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> RASENNA (ETRURIA)</b></p><p><b>Goddess <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-7-25_18-34-44-png.1150351/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> MENRVA</b></p><p><b>(forerunner of Rome&#039;s Minerva)</b></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>Etruria, Populonia</b></p><p>2-½ asses , AR 0.85 g</p><p>3rd century BC</p><p>Obv: Radiate female head r.; behind, Retrograde CII (mark of value, very similar to the Roman IIS Sestertius designation - 2 Asses and a Semis).</p><p>Rev: Blank.</p><p>Ref: EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). Historia Numorum Italy 179.</p><p>NAC Comment: <b>Of the highest rarity, apparently 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>([USER=75563]@ancientcoinguru[/USER] further pointed out and had me further research E.E. Clain-Stefanelli&#039;s excellent provenance...</p><p><i>ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenburg reported that <b>Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli</b> died Oct. 1, 2001. Mrs. Stefanelli retired in 2000 as the <b><span style="color: #b30000">Senior Curator of the National Numismatic Collection in the Numismatics Division of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. </span></b>She was at the Smithsonian for forty years, and was responsible with her husband Vladimir for organizing and building up the National Numismatic Collection (from 60,000 to over 1,000,000 pieces.) 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&#039;s and started the Coin Galleries division there. Her most recent publication was &quot;Life In Republican Rome On its Coinage&quot;, a lavishly illustrated discussion of the themes which appear on the coinage of the Roman Republic, published in 1999. Her major contribution to the science of numismatic literature was her classic &quot;Numismatic Bibliography&quot;, published in 1985.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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