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HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
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Getting quite Crusty... or shall I say: Dusty

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Someday in the distant future that will be reclaimed and sold for a fortune. image >>



    I am fascinated by that coin. Wonder who would claim ownership if it did come back to Earth? Seems that a Nasa/JPL employee donated the coin. Sanction's descendants may be updating us on a long lawsuit 50 years from now. image
  • HyperionHyperion Posts: 7,440 ✭✭✭
    if they ever get to the point of retrieval, I hope our society would have evolved past the point of needing lawyers and lawsuits
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  • jayPemjayPem Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Environmental damage...not to mention whatever they used to glue it on. I see a Genuine holder in this coins future image
  • Cougar1978Cougar1978 Posts: 8,765 ✭✭✭✭✭
    To think it was minted in 1909 for general circ and ended up on Mars.
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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OOTW toning (Out Of This World)

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  • stealerstealer Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭✭
    For the doctoring police...would this be considered a case where NASA intentionally placed the coin in an environment to accelerate the toning? image
  • WoodenJeffersonWoodenJefferson Posts: 6,491 ✭✭✭✭
    MT (Mars Toned)
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well... I see no tarnish.... just a gray, crusty surface.... perhaps the Mars atmosphere is not conducive to copper tarnish... Hmmm, wonder about silver.... could be that future Mars numismatists will collect coins without environmental damage....image Cheers, RickO
  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,893 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ken Edgett with Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego bought the coin and donated it for the project. It was a harshly cleaned VDB.
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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>To think it was minted in 1909 for general circ and ended up on Mars. >>



    Indeed.
  • Alltheabove76Alltheabove76 Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭
    It would go for moon money!
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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,767 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you are looking to preserve your collection, I don't think that sending it to Mars is going to cut it. image
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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>It would go for moon money! >>




    Oh, it would sell for much more than moon money... we're talking Mars money for that one!!!

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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It would go for moon money! >>



    Shipping would be a deal killer.
  • rmpsrpmsrmpsrpms Posts: 1,947 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The pic looks a lot worse in that pic than I expect the coin would look in-hand. The light is coming in from a very shallow angle for some reason, accentuating the surface dirt. It's clear that the upper pic and lower pic were taken with different lighting. And no, I don't feel weird at all about commenting on the image quality of a photo taken on Mars!
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  • Alltheabove76Alltheabove76 Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The pic looks a lot worse in that pic than I expect the coin would look in-hand. The light is coming in from a very shallow angle for some reason, accentuating the surface dirt. It's clear that the upper pic and lower pic were taken with different lighting. And no, I don't feel weird at all about commenting on the image quality of a photo taken on Mars! >>



    I think the clean photo was taken on earth before it left and before it had time to get all crusty
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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    With the Chinese manned moon mission coming up, and commercial space flights on the horizon, extraplanetary coins will become more common...Cheers, RickO
  • Alltheabove76Alltheabove76 Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭
    Probably gonna have to soak the panel in acetone for a long time to get unglued.
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  • OverdateOverdate Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>To think it was minted in 1909 for general circ and ended up on Mars. >>


    To think that it actually circulated for a time and ended up on Mars.

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  • Alltheabove76Alltheabove76 Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>To think it was minted in 1909 for general circ and ended up on Mars. >>


    To think that it actually circulated for a time and ended up on Mars. >>



    Looks unc to me.
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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 4,641 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I see no tarnish.... just a gray, crusty surface.... perhaps the Mars atmosphere is not conducive to copper tarnish... >>


    There is little to no Oxygen in space, hence things don't oxidize (tone/tarnish).
  • Alltheabove76Alltheabove76 Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I see no tarnish.... just a gray, crusty surface.... perhaps the Mars atmosphere is not conducive to copper tarnish... >>


    There is little to no Oxygen in space, hence things don't oxidize (tone/tarnish). >>



    There is oxygen on the surface of Mars, just not much. And oxidation must happen there because that is what makes the planet red. The oxidized iron in the soil.
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  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Wonder if they chose copper over a silver or gold coin for any particular reason?

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