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Message:: [QUOTE="Alegandron, post: 4744594, member: 51347"]After I captured this coin, I was fascinated by the provenance.  E.E. Clain-Stefannelli is an incredibly fascinating person.  An inspiration for my collecting. Since this coin, I have captured several coins of hers. I business I always had roughly 50/50 Female/Male staffs.  Some of my best Engineers were female.  I also was well acquainted with the Senior Engineer for the Jaguar Engine works when I lived in the UK.  I never really cared what sex an individual was, more to it, I was most interested in their brain-case and what they could contribute to our businesses. I have 6 daughters and have always asked them only to do their best and to pursue happiness in their lives. <img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2016-5-25_9-9-13-png.504302/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Etruria, Populonia2 ½ asses , AR 0.85 g3rd century BCObv: Radiate female head r.; behind, CII.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([USER=75563]@ancientcoinguru[/USER] further pointed out and had me further research E.E. Clain-Stefanelli's excellent provenance... 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.    Her most recent publication was "Life In Republican Rome    On its Coinage", 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 "Numismatic Bibliography",    published  in 1985.  Elvira E. Clain-Stefanelli (1914-2001) and her husband Dr. Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli (1914-1982) were academic numismatic historians and later numismatic authors and curators. They pursued their interest in ancient coinage of the Black Sea region and U.S. medals as a team, serving together as members of the American Numismatic Society and numerous other national and international numismatic organizations. Vladimir became an ANS Associate in 1951 and a Fellow in 1957; Elvira became a Fellow in 1963. The two were frequent visitors to the Society when they worked for Hesperia Art Galleries and then Stack’s in the 1950s. In 1956 Vladimir became curator of the Smithsonian's Division of Numismatics; a year later, Elvira joined him as Assistant Curator. Together, they built the National Numismatic Collection from approximately 60,000 specimens in 1956 to almost one million objects. Two years after Vladimir's death in 1982, Elvira became the department's first executive director, holding that position until her retirement in 2000.Dr. Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli (born Waldemar Günther Klein, but later changing the spelling of his surname to Clain and adding Stefanelli, his mother's maiden name) was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, Austria (now part of the Ukraine and Romania). Vladimir was initially a well-known specialist of Eastern European coinage, in particular of his native Romania. He also specialized in historical documentation of United States coinages as well as coinages of Greek colonies and southeast European issues of the 15th and 16th centuries. Vladimir received a B.A. and M.A. in 1936, and Ph.D. in 1938 from the University of King Carol II in Austria. His 1938 doctoral dissertation, concerning the ancient coinage of Callatis, is included in the collection. Vladimir married the former Elvira Eliza Olinescu on January 3, 1939. After WW II, the couple moved to Italy where they worked for the P&P Santamaria firm. They moved to the United States in 1951, where they would live out the remainder of their lives.Elvira E. Clain-Stefanelli was born in Bucharest, Romania. She received a degree in history from Franz Josef University in 1936 and later an M.A. in history from the University of Cernauti in Romania. Working with her husband after his appointment as manager of Stack's Coin Galleries subsidiary in 1954, Elvira wrote their first sales catalog. She joined the Smithsonian staff in 1957. In 1973 Elvira, along with her husband, received the Smithsonian Gold Medal for Exceptional Service. In 1996, she received the ANA's Farran Zerbe Memorial Award for Distinguished Service. During her numismatic career, Elvira was advisor to the U.S. Mint, the Department of Treasury, and many boards, committees, and associations.Together or separately, Elvira and Vladimir Clain-Stefanelli wrote and published many important works including: Monetary history and medallic art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C (Numisma, anÌƒo) (1965); History of the National Numismatic Collections (1968); La monnaie: trésor d’art (1971); Medals Commemorating Battles of the American Revolution (1973); The Beauty and Lore of Coins Currency and Medals (1974); Chartered for Progress, Two Centuries of American Banking: A Pictorial Essay(1975); Muenzen der Neuzeit (1978); Numismatic Bibliography (1984); Life in Republican Rome (1999).[/QUOTE]

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