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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24693169, member: 26430&quot;]That was good work tracking down the previous listing! I&#039;ve seen that happen before -- even with published coins and coins from important collections. Scanning group lots for similar situations is one of my provenance hunting strategies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of which, here&#039;s one of my favorites (also one of my cheapest), which I grabbed from a group lot. The collector name was mentioned, but <i>not</i> that it was published in one of her articles.</p><p><br /></p><p>From <a href="https://www.sixbid-coin-archive.com/#/en/single/l33858658" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid-coin-archive.com/#/en/single/l33858658" rel="nofollow">a Naville group lot</a>, only 10 GBP per coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex Elvira Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001, probably also Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli, 1914-1982), important numismatists &amp; curators of the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian (Washington, DC). (Among my favorite collections to collect! I have a few dozen of their coins and a few pieces of literature.)</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s a rare type -- a Hemilitron (7mm, 0.31g) from Bruttium, Rhegion, c. 440 BCE -- very tiny! (Naville had it cataloged as the much less rare Litra.) There are only a few of these published (e.g., <a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.8012" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.8012" rel="nofollow">ANS 654</a> = Prinz W. = Herzfelder = Newell = HN Italy 1026), and none with these controls on the rev.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575887[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The top right coin here:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1575888[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The article is:</p><p><br /></p><p>Clain-Stefanelli, Elvira E. 1987. &quot;On Some Fractional Silver Coinages of Sicily and Magna Graecia during the Fifth Century.&quot; <i>Revue Belge de Numismatique</i> CXXXIII: p. 39-64, Pl. VIII-XIII.&nbsp; [<a href="http://www.numisbel.be/inhoudstafel.htm#vol133" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numisbel.be/inhoudstafel.htm#vol133" rel="nofollow">PDF Available via Belgian Royal Numis. Society website</a>][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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