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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2428690, member: 51347&quot;]Congratulations [USER=77681]@Prokles[/USER] !&nbsp; I bid on several Etruscans with Baldwin, but my bids were not enough.&nbsp; Looks like you got one!&nbsp; I loved the story behind Metus, and the Etruscan heritage... I want one of those 20 Asses Coins!</p><p><br /></p><p>At the recent NAC Auction I was able to capture an Etruscan.&nbsp; I am really glad I got this one due to the excellent provenance, the denomination, and the rarity.&nbsp; I actually enjoy collecting pre-bronze Sestertii (sliver), as they are tiny coins.&nbsp; Although this one seems not to be CALLED a Sestertius, it is the same denomination and size of the Roman version that comes a little later...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]504302[/ATTACH]</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, CII. </p><p>Rev: Blank. </p><p>Ref:&nbsp; EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). Historia Numorum Italy 179.</p><p>NAC Comment:&nbsp; <b>Of the highest rarity, apparently only the second specimen known.</b> Dark patina and about very fine.</p><p>Ex:&nbsp; From the collection of E.E. Clain-Stefanelli&nbsp; </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><font size="3">ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenburg reported that Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli died Oct. 1, 2001. 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.&nbsp; 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.)&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.</font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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