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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 3074048, member: 51347&quot;]Gorgeous coin [USER=88526]@Jay GT4[/USER] !&nbsp; Very nice shot!</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not gonna kid anybody, my photo skills are atrocious and I use a lot of seller pics.&nbsp; The pics I take are marginal. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; But, hey!&nbsp; I enjoy the coins regardless of my skillsets!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since I cannot take photos worth crud, how &#039;bout I offer one from your second offer:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]772841[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Etruria, Populonia</b></p><p>2 ½ asses </p><p>3rd century BC, AR 0.85 g. </p><p>Obv: Radiate female head r.; behind, CII. </p><p>Rev: Blank. EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). </p><p>Ref: Historia Numorum Italy 179.</p><p>Comments: Of the highest rarity, apparently only the second specimen known.</p><p>Dark patina and about very fine</p><p><b>From the collection of E.E. Clain-Stefanelli.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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</p><p>numismatic literature was her classic &quot;Numismatic Bibliography&quot;, published in 1985.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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