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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2800865, member: 51347&quot;]I wholeheartedly sacrifice condition of a scarce/rare/HISTORICAL coin over a pretty-boy mint state.</p><p><br /></p><p>I surprisingly have a few coins with known examples under 20, and a further few with known examples under 10...&nbsp; I don&#039;t think they would win any Numismatic Beauty Contests, but I do not collect numismatically... I like to collect <i>Historically.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>I am fascinated by the Etrurian people.&nbsp; Little is known of their origins, and they are a very distinct people from the other Italian peoples.&nbsp; They were the precursor culture that heavily influenced and was later absorbed into the Roman Culture early in Rome&#039;s history.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a fairly scarce (RARE?), only 2 known...one in the British Museum, the other is some obscure dopey collector&#039;s hands...</p><p><br /></p><p>She ain&#039;t purdy, but she is mine...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]652914[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Etruria, Populonia</b></p><p>2 ½ asses , AR 0.85 g</p><p>3rd century BCE</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: <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>(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>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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