This isn’t a terribly good photo, but here’s my collection (the rocks, not the coins).
Left to right are hematite “roses” in quartz from China, malachite from Congo, amethyst from Uruguay, a curious agate from Brazil, an Oregon thunder egg (a gift from my wife), Peru pyrite, Nevada stromatolite, a piece of obsidian from near Mono lake CA (a gift from my guitar teacher), Moroccan iron oxide quartz, a trilobite from Utah, Moroccan vanadinite, and a Japanese suiseki landscape stone. There’s some smaller items up there too like aquamarines, and tourmalines.
This is just a small collection my daughters made me gather. My youngest one did gave one of her favorite away to a member on this forum who sent her a doll named Emma.
@ricko said:
I collected rocks as a kid.... and coins.... Now marbles (guineas and cobras), coins and guns.... and playing cards, and old pocket flasks, and gold and books. Cheers, RickO
Hey @ricko, here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full. Great minds think alike.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
@ricko said:
I collected rocks as a kid.... and coins.... Now marbles (guineas and cobras), coins and guns.... and playing cards, and old pocket flasks, and gold and books. Cheers, RickO
Hey @ricko, here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full. Great minds think alike.
True story, I got drawers full with 1st generation Pokemon cards that I purchased but never played during my college year. And I recently gave to my daughters to play before I found out that they worth at least thousands of dollars. lol
Nice collection.... mine are mainly very old, in pristine condition... I have one deck without numbers...that is how they once were made.... Five of hearts had five hearts... and so on.... When numbers were first added, players were suspicious that it might be a way to cheat.... Cheers, RickO
@PCGSPhoto said:
This isn’t a terribly good photo, but here’s my collection (the rocks, not the coins).
Left to right are hematite “roses” in quartz from China, malachite from Congo, amethyst from Uruguay, a curious agate from Brazil, an Oregon thunder egg (a gift from my wife), Peru pyrite, Nevada stromatolite, a piece of obsidian from near Mono lake CA (a gift from my guitar teacher), Moroccan iron oxide quartz, a trilobite from Utah, Moroccan vanadinite, and a Japanese suiseki landscape stone. There’s some smaller items up there too like aquamarines, and tourmalines.
Somehow your mantle looks slightly different than mine. I got little bits of crap from 4 continents. Left to right are... nevermind.
Here's a 34 gram piece of MARS. Notice the fusion crust from surviving the plunge through Earth's atmosphere. For scale, the coin is a Barber quarter.
Since I never saw it fall, I have no idea what the color of the meteorite was when it went through the atmosphere, but here's something for the next time you see a meteor/meteorite...
My only rock puzzle aside from metal, wood or plastic puzzles I have. Perhaps an Indian child's toy? Someone went to great lengths cutting it in half or maybe someone here has an explanation. But it takes some time reassembling the pieces back together.
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
Dog tooth or hounds tooth calcite from the Berry College campus in Floyd county just North of Rome, GA. I picked this up years ago and have been told access to the area is no longer available.
What is it? I picked it up at a flea market in Germany when I was on a business trip in 1989 or 90. I can't remember what it is but I like the way it looks.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
I love these collections of beautiful “rocks”. But there’s a small part of my brain telling me I can’t start my own collection until I figure out how to organize them in a Dansco album.
Size is everything! There are many beautiful gems that will fit in a Dansco!
@savitale said:
I love these collections of beautiful “rocks”. But there’s a small part of my brain telling me I can’t start my own collection until I figure out how to organize them in a Dansco album.
When I worked in NJ, every so often they would open a small open pit mine in Franklin at night and let us collect phosphorescent minerals. It was on the site of the Mineral museum. During the day the place just looked like a rocky field.
The mine museum had a room that looked just like the collection above only with bigger rocks. When the lights were on, it looked like a wall of black rubble. The colors identify the minerals.
check out: Franklin, NJ - Fluorescent Minerals Capital of the World
@metalmeister That appears (from your👇photo) to be a Black Tourmaline Pegmatite (Black Tourmaline Crystals in Quartz with some Feldspar).
@metalmeister said:
I used to gather river rocks on local hikes and throw them in my back sack for landscape rocks at our house. That sucker would weigh 40 lbs. when I weighed it! Here is one from farther inland.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@topstuf That appears to be a piece of Picture Sandstone, although tough to discern from the photo if it’s truly a Sandstone or an Agate...
The Sandstone would have millimeter sized sedimentary transported Quartz grains, and the Agate would be cryptocrystalline (i.e. extremely fine grained) Quartz formed in place by chemical precipitation processes.
@topstuf said:
I don't know what this is but I found it in Montana.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@leothelyon That appears to be a Concretion that may have cracked partially in half revealing the solid core “Seed Rock” that was the Nucleus of Formation, onto which the larger Concretion continued to grow via an in situ chemical precipitation process.
@leothelyon said:
My only rock puzzle aside from metal, wood or plastic puzzles I have. Perhaps an Indian child's toy? Someone went to great lengths cutting it in half or maybe someone here has an explanation. But it takes some time reassembling the pieces back together.
Leo
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@topstuf That makes prefect sense, since Jasper and Agate are chemically similar cryptocrystalline (i.e. extremely fine grained) Quartz formed in place by chemical precipitation processes.👍
They would both feel “Heavier” than a Sandstone, because they have minimal porosity and are therefore typically denser than a Sandstone.
@topstuf said:
It is awfully HEAVY for sandstone. Also very hard surface.
I was told by an amateur that it could be jasper.
I have no idea. Never saw anything like it before.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@Stuart said: @leothelyon That appears to be a Concretion that may have cracked partially in half revealing the solid core “Seed Rock” that was the Nucleus of Formation, onto which the larger Concretion continued to grow via an in situ chemical precipitation process.
@leothelyon said:
My only rock puzzle aside from metal, wood or plastic puzzles I have. Perhaps an Indian child's toy? Someone went to great lengths cutting it in half or maybe someone here has an explanation. But it takes some time reassembling the pieces back together.
Leo
Awesome! I searched the name, Concretion, great answer! thank you.
Here's another if you don't mind. Is this a petrified snake?
Thanks again
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
Yale University’s Peabody Museum has an amazing rock collection and The California Gold display is breath taking. It’s worth checking out the website if you can’t make it to the museum.
I was given this lava coin by a friend.
The coin is Italy Bronze 5 centesimi 1919, about 20 mm in diameter.
This is a souvenir probably made in 1944 during the eruption of volcano Vesuvius near Naples.
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This isn’t a terribly good photo, but here’s my collection (the rocks, not the coins).
Left to right are hematite “roses” in quartz from China, malachite from Congo, amethyst from Uruguay, a curious agate from Brazil, an Oregon thunder egg (a gift from my wife), Peru pyrite, Nevada stromatolite, a piece of obsidian from near Mono lake CA (a gift from my guitar teacher), Moroccan iron oxide quartz, a trilobite from Utah, Moroccan vanadinite, and a Japanese suiseki landscape stone. There’s some smaller items up there too like aquamarines, and tourmalines.
Radiant Collection: Numismatics and Exonumia of the Atomic Age.
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/showcase/3232
This is just a small collection my daughters made me gather. My youngest one did gave one of her favorite away to a member on this forum who sent her a doll named Emma.
I don't know what this is but I found it in Montana.
Hey @ricko, here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full. Great minds think alike.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
True story, I got drawers full with 1st generation Pokemon cards that I purchased but never played during my college year. And I recently gave to my daughters to play before I found out that they worth at least thousands of dollars. lol
Texas points?
Successful buys on BST board from NotSure, Nankraut, Yorkshireman, Astrorat, Ikeigwin(2x), Bob13, Outhaul, coinbuf, dpvilla, jayPem, Sean1990, TwoKopeiki, bidask, Downtown1974, drddm, nederveit2
Nice collection.... mine are mainly very old, in pristine condition... I have one deck without numbers...that is how they once were made.... Five of hearts had five hearts... and so on.... When numbers were first added, players were suspicious that it might be a way to cheat....
Cheers, RickO
Somehow your mantle looks slightly different than mine. I got little bits of crap from 4 continents. Left to right are... nevermind.
Here's a 34 gram piece of MARS. Notice the fusion crust from surviving the plunge through Earth's atmosphere. For scale, the coin is a Barber quarter.
Since I never saw it fall, I have no idea what the color of the meteorite was when it went through the atmosphere, but here's something for the next time you see a meteor/meteorite...
U.S. Type Set
My only rock puzzle aside from metal, wood or plastic puzzles I have. Perhaps an Indian child's toy? Someone went to great lengths cutting it in half or maybe someone here has an explanation. But it takes some time reassembling the pieces back together.
Leo
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
@tommy44 said: "...here's a picture of some of my playing cards. Both drawers are full...."
Do you have that limited edition set issued at the FUN coin show? I'll see if I can find an image somewhere.
I'm embarrassed to admit I did have them but someone made me a offer I couldn't refuse. Maybe I'm not a collector after all.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
And yet is that not itself a great wisdom?
@Laurie, AKA @specialist, used to have a superb collection. May still.
Are these considered rocks?
Dog tooth or hounds tooth calcite from the Berry College campus in Floyd county just North of Rome, GA. I picked this up years ago and have been told access to the area is no longer available.
What is it? I picked it up at a flea market in Germany when I was on a business trip in 1989 or 90. I can't remember what it is but I like the way it looks.
it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide
Here are the top 3 shelves of my collection. Then two close ups of some CAC like specimens.
Successful buys on BST board from NotSure, Nankraut, Yorkshireman, Astrorat, Ikeigwin(2x), Bob13, Outhaul, coinbuf, dpvilla, jayPem, Sean1990, TwoKopeiki, bidask, Downtown1974, drddm, nederveit2
I love these collections of beautiful “rocks”. But there’s a small part of my brain telling me I can’t start my own collection until I figure out how to organize them in a Dansco album.
LIBERTY SEATED DIMES WITH MAJOR VARIETIES CIRCULATION STRIKES (1837-1891) digital album
I'm assuming your asking about the Dart Points and Arrowheads. Good eye, yes they are from the area South of Dallas and to around Waco TX.
Thought so. I collect points and tools from South and Central Texas. Very similar characteristics
Successful buys on BST board from NotSure, Nankraut, Yorkshireman, Astrorat, Ikeigwin(2x), Bob13, Outhaul, coinbuf, dpvilla, jayPem, Sean1990, TwoKopeiki, bidask, Downtown1974, drddm, nederveit2
Size is everything!
There are many beautiful gems that will fit in a Dansco!
I don't have any rocks but my Doctor cautions that I may be developing stones...
Ouch with a bunch of exclamation marks.
@ronctx That's a lot of arrowheads! Did you find those? What state?
100% Positive BST transactions
Those will pass.
I just saw it. Texas. Oh my!
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I gave you a LOL but wait - that's not funny.
Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got
Im still Jenny from the block.
I snapped this picture at a friend’s house. Even cooler than his coins!
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
When I worked in NJ, every so often they would open a small open pit mine in Franklin at night and let us collect phosphorescent minerals. It was on the site of the Mineral museum. During the day the place just looked like a rocky field.
The mine museum had a room that looked just like the collection above only with bigger rocks. When the lights were on, it looked like a wall of black rubble. The colors identify the minerals.
check out: Franklin, NJ - Fluorescent Minerals Capital of the World
Isn’t there an old saying about glowing rocks and hair falling out?
Don’t know but that’s cool!
The field where these minerals are found will set off a Geiger Counter!
@metalmeister That appears (from your👇photo) to be a Black Tourmaline Pegmatite (Black Tourmaline Crystals in Quartz with some Feldspar).
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@koynekwest Hard for me to discern for certain from your👇photo whether that is Lapis Lazuli or Sodalite...🧐
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@topstuf That appears to be a piece of Picture Sandstone, although tough to discern from the photo if it’s truly a Sandstone or an Agate...
The Sandstone would have millimeter sized sedimentary transported Quartz grains, and the Agate would be cryptocrystalline (i.e. extremely fine grained) Quartz formed in place by chemical precipitation processes.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@ifthevamzarockin Is that a piece of Rhodochrosite (Mn,Fe,Mg,Ca) CO3 ?
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
It is awfully HEAVY for sandstone. Also very hard surface.
I was told by an amateur that it could be jasper.
I have no idea. Never saw anything like it before.
@Stuart "Is that a piece of Rhodochrosite"
I wouldn't know one rock from another. I know they are all hard if you get hit in the head with them.
@leothelyon That appears to be a Concretion that may have cracked partially in half revealing the solid core “Seed Rock” that was the Nucleus of Formation, onto which the larger Concretion continued to grow via an in situ chemical precipitation process.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
@topstuf That makes prefect sense, since Jasper and Agate are chemically similar cryptocrystalline (i.e. extremely fine grained) Quartz formed in place by chemical precipitation processes.👍
They would both feel “Heavier” than a Sandstone, because they have minimal porosity and are therefore typically denser than a Sandstone.
Stuart
Collect 18th & 19th Century US Type Coins, Silver Dollars, $20 Gold Double Eagles and World Crowns & Talers with High Eye Appeal
"Luck is what happens when Preparation meets Opportunity"
Awesome! I searched the name, Concretion, great answer! thank you.
Here's another if you don't mind. Is this a petrified snake?
Thanks again
The more qualities observed in a coin, the more desirable that coin becomes!
My Jefferson Nickel Collection
Yale University’s Peabody Museum has an amazing rock collection and The California Gold display is breath taking. It’s worth checking out the website if you can’t make it to the museum.
Rocks and Coins:
Lava Coin
I was given this lava coin by a friend.
The coin is Italy Bronze 5 centesimi 1919, about 20 mm in diameter.
This is a souvenir probably made in 1944 during the eruption of volcano Vesuvius near Naples.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
My wife told me last night I have some in my head?
a.k.a "The BUFFINATOR"
I pick up some rocks... every once in a while... well, kinda somewhat often...quite often actually! Is there a cure for that?
Here are a few I have found.
Not sure why they loaded in sideways!
I found these last year. Not quite sure what it is.
Not when its a marble size