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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2721169, member: 51347&quot;]I have 51 that were considered and described to me as &quot;Rare&quot;, &quot;Very Rare&quot;, one as &quot;Extremely Rare&quot; , &quot;Scarce&quot;, etc.&nbsp; I just consider them all <b>&quot;Cool, Hard-to-Get&quot;</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is kinda cool.&nbsp; Produced by Hannibal after he lost to the Romans in the Battle of Zama.&nbsp; He had to govern Carthage and ensure their finances were in order, so they could pay indemnities to the Romans...&nbsp; This is a HUGE coin, my largest STAMPED coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]616543[/ATTACH]</p><p>Carthage 201-175 BC Æ 15 Shekels <b>45 mm, 7.5 mm thick,</b> <b>102g</b> WreathTanit Horse uraeus above. MAA 104 SNG Cop 400 RARE</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is one of two known:&nbsp; mine and and one at the British Museum:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]616544[/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: 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 E.E. Clain-Stefanelli </p><p>(@@ancientcoinguru 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 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. 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></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Plate coin</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]616545[/ATTACH]</p><p>Campania</p><p>AE</p><p>Apollo-Achelous</p><p>275-250BCE</p><p>SNG ANS 474</p><p>Ex: A random shooting in an auction...</p><p>Nicholas Molinari 15-June-2016 stated: &quot;Your ... coin is a plate coin in Potamikon, number 343 in our catalog so Sambon 663; Taliercio IIIa.16; MSP I, 343, featuring Acheloios Sebethos as a man-faced bull. Taliercio cited three examples of this type, so yours is the fourth known of that particular variety.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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