A note on elliptic coordinates on the Lie algebra e(3)
  We introduce elliptic coordinates on the dual space to the Lie algebra e(3$ and discuss the separability of the Clebsch system in these variables. The proposed Darboux coordinates on e^*(3) coincide with the usual elliptic coordinates on the cotangent bundle of the two-dimensional sphere at the zero value of the corresponding Casimir function. 
A.V. Tsiganov