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<p>[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4804346, member: 51347"]Although it may had not been called in the Rasenna language as a Sestertius, it was tariffed at 2-1/2 Asses, which was a fourth of a 10-As Denarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Favorite “Sestertius”</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>[ATTACH=full]1166819[/ATTACH]<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's and started</p><p>the Coin Galleries division there[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4804346, member: 51347"]Although it may had not been called in the Rasenna language as a Sestertius, it was tariffed at 2-1/2 Asses, which was a fourth of a 10-As Denarius. My Favorite “Sestertius” [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2016-5-25_9-9-13-png.504302/[/IMG] [B][ATTACH=full]1166819[/ATTACH][B]Rasenna, Fufluna, ([/B]Etruria, Populonia)[/B] 2 ½ asses , AR 0.85 g 3rd century BC Obv: Radiate female head r.; behind, IIC (Retrograde) Rev: Blank. Ref: EC 104 (misdescribed, Female head with an Attic helmet). Historia Numorum Italy 179. NAC Comment: Of the highest rarity, apparently only the second specimen known. Dark patina and about very fine. Ex: From the collection of E.E. Clain-Stefanelli E.E. CLAIN-STEFANELLI DIES ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenburg reported that Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli died Oct. 1, 2001 of cardiac arrest. 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. 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's and started the Coin Galleries division there[/QUOTE]
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