Anyone collect rocks?

topstuf · May 5, 2019 11:46AM

What a sneaky way to post an OT picture.
Found this rock on a walk the other day. It needed painting.

Zoins · May 5, 2019 11:54AM

That’s nice looking

I have a rare geocoin with an embedded meteorite fragment. I’d need to dig up some pics.

yspsales · May 5, 2019 11:55AM

Sort of... I have been eyeing a few sharks teeth.

Major Megledon fossil beds located near from Cooper River in Charleston and offshore wilmington.

ctf_error_coins · May 5, 2019 11:56AM

My wife picks these up in Santee California where it is a thing ...

Google..... Santee Rocks

Hemispherical · May 5, 2019 11:56AM

@PCGSPhoto has some great geological specimens. Some are posted in the Random Picture thread. https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12315411/#Comment_12315411

@topstuf it’s pretty neat how some people have that imaginative ability in making something from a common item, in this case a rock.

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This is all that my imagination does (and a weak attempt at making this coin related).

This masterpiece is called: “An Inheritance Error What Is It Worth”

Timbuk3 · May 5, 2019 2:48PM

Here's one of my "rocks" !!!

Hemispherical · May 5, 2019 3:04PM

@Timbuk3 said:
Here's one of my "rocks" !!!

Those are very nice rocks!

northcoin · May 5, 2019 3:09PM

Well this one is sculpted from a rock - though I only "collect" photos of such rocks:

northcoin · May 5, 2019 3:19PM

And here is a rock (actually termed "stone") lantern for which I have been "collecting" photographs since 1968:

My Photos and a postal image from 1968:

My Photo from 2019 and a watercolor I had commissioned of the Stone Lantern inspired by my above winter photo:

johnny9434 · May 5, 2019 3:31PM

Not here but do like marbles

northcoin · May 5, 2019 3:31PM

Then there are these of and atop "The Rock" of Gibraltar:

ifthevamzarockin · May 5, 2019 3:35PM

@johnny9434 said:
Not here but do like marbles

I lost all my marbles years ago, all I have left are rocks in my head. Does that count as a collection?

Barndog · May 5, 2019 3:35PM

TommyType · May 5, 2019 3:38PM

I was gainfully employed on a farm as a "rock picker" for several summers in college. While we did "collect rocks", I did not retain any of them as a long-term investment....

I preferred de-tasseling corn. Another under appreciated summer job.

topstuf · May 5, 2019 4:07PM

@Barndog said:

Ahhhhh... now it's resaleable.

RogerB · May 5, 2019 4:12PM

Until about age 9 I was a "rock hound." One day I took my mineral collection to school for show and tell. During the day someone stole my fossil ammonite and quartz with gold inclusions. Gave up on minerals; switched to coins a few months later -- and never took them to school.

sparky64 · May 5, 2019 4:19PM

Last month I went to a rock, mineral, fossil show with my brothers family.

I was blown away at how packed the place was. Expected complete boredom but it was absolutely an awesome show and good time.

The dealers were very generous with their knowledge and kids loved it.

AUandAG · May 5, 2019 5:40PM

I like gold and silver nuggets and do collect them as I find them.

bob

Walkerguy21D · May 5, 2019 5:40PM

A coquina crab fossil I found here on the east coast of FL, and what I call a hamburger rock from a tiny island in Lake Superior that we kayak’d to:

koynekwest · May 5, 2019 6:35PM

A tiny moon rock-would this count? I also have a very small collection of semi-precious colorful stones.

Hemispherical · May 5, 2019 7:03PM

I like the Apollo 11 moon... @koynekwest!

Is it a coin, token, or medal?

koynekwest · May 5, 2019 8:21PM

It's a Cook Island commemorative (made to sell to buyers in the USA.) The pic above is of the "bright side" of the moon. Here's the other side-the "dark" side of the moon.

Hemispherical · May 5, 2019 8:34PM

@koynekwest That’s cool!

At first the dates looked wrong on the reverse but realized it was for Luna III.

Thanks for the showing.

MrMonkeySwag96 · May 5, 2019 8:34PM

I got rocks on my teeth.......

Hemispherical · May 5, 2019 8:43PM

ifthevamzarockin · May 5, 2019 8:48PM

I didn't collect these but I did take a photo.

northcoin · May 5, 2019 11:57PM

@koynekwest said:
A tiny moon rock-would this count? I also have a very small collection of semi-precious colorful stones.

Definitely! Do you actually have the pictured moon rock in your collection? What is the story behind its acquisition?

Here are photos I took of a lunar rock as it was displayed at an international exposition in 1970, the year after the first lunar landing and of a moon rock on display more recently in a local museum. The black and white photos were from 1970 taken at Expo '70.

drei3ree · May 6, 2019 3:58AM

My wife does

ricko · May 6, 2019 5:00AM

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

ricman · May 6, 2019 5:37AM

Yes.

amwldcoin · May 6, 2019 6:21AM

I have a NSFW rock in my yard!

Hemispherical · May 6, 2019 6:39AM

@amwldcoin There’s meds for that.

1630Boston · May 6, 2019 7:05AM

I actually 'make' rocks as part of my job

https://youtu.be/NkxKX8Z6vhY

1630Boston · May 6, 2019 7:16AM

https://youtu.be/ZjydK5umtJU

PCGSPhoto · May 6, 2019 7:51AM

Yes, I have a small but growing collection of minerals and fossils. I just purchased a rock yesterday as an early birthday present to myself, and it's a large, eye-catching centerpiece to the collection. It's a stromatolite from the Miocene epoch, and the striations of color are fossilized cyanobacteria from an ancient lake that was covered in volcanic ash in what is now Elko County, NV.

BryceM · May 6, 2019 7:58AM

I don't collect rocks, but the last time I was in Chicago, I found a building that collects them.

The Tribune Tower

Hemispherical · May 6, 2019 8:08AM

Stone + Money = Yap

Image Courtesy of David McCarthy

Stone Money from Yap
Jaime Hernandez - March 12, 2012

“Giant doughnut-shaped stone coins standing as high as 12 feet tall and weighing as much as five tons each are still being used as currency in some parts of the world. One of these places is the island of Yap. And one thing is for certain; Yapese people are not shy about showing off the amount of money they have.”

“Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, there is a group of Islands that belong to Micronesia, where the island of Yap is located. Covering an area of about 100 square kilometers, these islands are home to about 12,000 people. There are four main languages spoken here (including English). The people who inhabit these islands are separated into seven different tribes (or classes) and the color of their coverings usually indicates which tribe they belong to.”

https://www.pcgs.com/News/Stone-Money-From-Yap

OldEastside · May 6, 2019 8:10AM

My Ex Girlfriend gave me this rock in Chatsworth 42 years ago when we climbed it,
it was a little to awkward to bring home so I just left it there in Chatsworth, we call it
Stony Point

Steve

Fairlaneman · May 6, 2019 8:33AM

The whole family are Rockhounds. Below is a Rock that my oldest son calls junk.
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I guess he knows what he is talking about because he turned a Hobby into a Full time occupation. Some of his work follows.
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https://instagram.com/p/BxGjEkOlvA1/embed/

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Ken

koynekwest · May 6, 2019 9:23AM

@northcoin said:

@koynekwest said:
A tiny moon rock-would this count? I also have a very small collection of semi-precious colorful stones.

Definitely! Do you actually have the pictured moon rock in your collection? What is the story behind its acquisition?

Here are photos I took of a lunar rock as it was displayed at an international exposition in 1970, the year after the first lunar landing and of a moon rock on display more recently in a local museum. The black and white photos were from 1970 taken at Expo '70.

Yes-I have one. I bought it when it was issued since I thought it was such a neat item.

Insider2 · May 6, 2019 11:15AM

@ifthevamzarockin said:
I didn't collect these but I did take a photo.

How could you resist picking them up?? Where are they located?

ifthevamzarockin · May 6, 2019 11:20AM

@Insider2 How could you resist picking them up?? Where are they located?

I already have rocks in my head and there isn't room for any more.

jwitten · May 6, 2019 11:31AM

@amwldcoin said:
I have a NSFW rock in my yard!

If it lasts for over 400 years you may want to see a doctor

Insider2 · May 6, 2019 11:41AM

Their is ALWAYS ROOM for more rocks as those.

I use lots of my rocks as bookends

kbbpll · May 6, 2019 11:56AM

@BryceM said:
I don't collect rocks, but the last time I was in Chicago, I found a building that collects them.

The Tribune Tower

Ha, my grandfather might have been responsible for some of those rocks, particularly from the western US. He was head librarian at the Tribune for decades during that period. He had people all over the world sending him coins, he was fairly close with Colonel McCormick (close enough that McCormick paid for my uncle's surgery when he was a young child, probably 1940 or so), and I know my grandparents traveled extensively out west. I still have rocks and other artifacts gathered from those trips. Might be fun to know for sure, but one article says that the origins of "38%'" (57 rocks?) are unknown.

metalmeister · May 6, 2019 1:43PM

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.

Hemispherical · May 6, 2019 1:46PM

@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.

There’s a cent in that rock.
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koynekwest · May 6, 2019 2:17PM

I have a small collection of stones like this-

amwldcoin · May 6, 2019 2:45PM

Georgia's Big Rock! Was just there with my newly found niece and her family. They chickened out on the hike up but we did walk down!

Insider2 · May 6, 2019 2:47PM

I have a precious/semi precious gem/mineral collection. I collect the rough and a cut stone to go with it. At a coin show last Saturday I bought some "clam pearls." If this thread is still going, I'll post them.

ronctx · May 6, 2019 4:45PM

This is the only rocks that I collect.

Anyone collect rocks?

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