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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 5241639, member: 51347&quot;]Since I was in University, I have enjoyed a fascinating and mysterious people from Central Italia.&nbsp; The Etrurians.&nbsp; They had an Empire in Central Italia, a separate culture from Italia, a language that has not been translated. Even their people are not from Italia and their lineage have not been traced to a specific location.&nbsp; They are questioned as an original pre-Indo-European peoples.&nbsp; Rome&#039;s First Kings as well as their early culture, religion, and institutions were heavily based on Etrurian influence.&nbsp; Emperor Claudius was the last known Historian and language translations of the Etrurians as he had family lineage.&nbsp; Unfortunately, his works were lost.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruria" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruria</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217856[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Although my coins are from late in their existence as a separate people, and close to when they were absorbed into Rome, they represent the Mystery of this Ancient People.</p><p><br /></p><p><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)</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><b>Rasenna, Fufluna, (</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, 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 only the second specimen known. Dark patina and about very fine.</p><p>Ex: From the collection of E.E. Clain-Stefanelli</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&#039;s and started</p><p>the Coin Galleries division there</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-9-4_18-23-16-png.1170088/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Etruria Populonia</p><p>AR 1 As</p><p>0.60g 10.0mm</p><p>after 211 BCE</p><p>Male Head Left -</p><p>Plain Rev</p><p>Vecchi 3 68-70 HN Italy 181 R</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2020-9-4_17-27-4-png.1170066/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Etruria</p><p>3rd C BCE</p><p>AE 18mm 4.76g</p><p>Hd African r</p><p>Elephant r letter below</p><p>SNG Cop 48 HNI 69 SNG Paris 138-140 SNG Morcom 44 R[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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