Jefferson's Rock

earlwbollinger

Wow, looks like someone really couldn't live without this sucker.
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Who would have thought it.

lordmarcovan

Oh. With that apostrophe in your title, I honestly thought you were discussing a rock owned by Thomas Jefferson. He probably collected them.

solid

Are you the winner? The name is similar to your handle here.

earlwbollinger

Unfortunately not, my max bid was a lot less.
I had no idea someone wanted it that much more than anyone else.

nwcs

Must have been in honor of Weezy Jefferson.

coinguy89

<< <i>Oh. With that apostrophe in your title, I honestly thought you were discussing a rock owned by Thomas Jefferson. He probably collected them. >>



I was thinking that myself.

GoYankees

<< <i>Oh. With that apostrophe in your title, I honestly thought you were discussing a rock owned by Thomas Jefferson. He probably collected them. >>



I think mankind collected rocks before he knew how to mint coins.

coinguy89

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<< <i>Oh. With that apostrophe in your title, I honestly thought you were discussing a rock owned by Thomas Jefferson. He probably collected them. >>



I think mankind collected rocks before he knew how to mint coins. >>



Probably, I used to collect rocks for fun. I've got about 2 or 3 boxes full of all kinds of them, mostly cheap worthless things, but they were still fun to collect and great to look at.

Crackout

Must have been in honor of Weezy Jefferson.

Poor Weezy - She's movin' on up - to that deluxe apartment....in the sky.

earlwbollinger

Well, I do have some great rocks too.
When I was a little kid, this wizzened old guy took my family up to a old mine of his in Arizona.
He showed me his hole in the mountain and broke off some big chunks of quartz with a gold vein running through them.
I spent all summer with a hammer and a chisel pounding away at the rocks to get the gold chunks out of the rock.
The gold chunks are pretty neat, they actually have a lot of silver in them, so they look more like white gold than yellow or copper gold. It reminds me of the old Persian Siglos or Croesus like coins from around 450BC.

That old guy was great, he lived in a little mobile home at the time, and had all these neat 1,2,5,10 gallon cans full of neat stuff, like gold dust, gold ore, uranium ore, and so on. He started me on a many year hobby of being a "rockhound". I remember popping the top off a can and playing with the powder and asked him what it was, he said it was "Uranium ore, you'd better put the lid back on that bou, and wash your hands real good".
One day when I was at school he apparently moved out of the mobile home park and that was the last I had ever seen of him.

Ahhh, the goold ol'days.