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Bedrock of the Community
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They just look like rocks to me.  Edit: ...and chunks of concrete/block and a screw... In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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10/24/2020 5:02 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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That is a remarkable find! Fantastic treasure for sure!!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Aye, nothin' thar for me, Jim Hawkins!  to the CCF! Edited by Coinfrog
10/24/2020 5:06 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It uhhh looks like rock. I used to collect rocks and stones so I can tell the good from the bad a lot of the time, but this just looks like rubble.
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Environmental scientist here. Those items are definitely pre-1881.... it's conglomerate stone. Unless you see a gold bar sticking out, that's authentic 50 million year old sedimentary rock.
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And some blocks of concrete.... if you see a coin, attach a better picture.
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The upload quality is pretty bad but I can clearly see chunks of coins in the blocks  |
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Get an assay of the metal.
When I listen to LED ZEPPELIN...so do my neighbors...
Roll hunting since '77
Dirt fishing since '72
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Get an assay of the metal. Don't you know fistfullarock when you see it?  It could be from a place called Quoin Rock. Edited by MOS0239
10/24/2020 6:57 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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Can you use an arrow pointer to show us these chunks of coins?
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Very interesting the way the colors of gold and silver pop right out . I don't think I've ever seen anything like it .  |
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Mica flakes embedded in metamorphic rocks rock are very often tinged to a bright golden color by chemical traces of iron sulfide, and to the untrained eye, look exactly like gold flakes.
Fools Gold particles are dense, but react strongly with acid, and the golden color quickly disappears. You may wish to test for this.
The only instance I can think of, where coins can be imbedded in rock, is in hard pumice from a volcanic eruption, such as Vesuvius eruption at Pompeii.
Examples on display in the Pompeii Museum.
You can also get tourist fakes of coins mixed with reheated volcanic ash.
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10/24/2020 8:06 pm
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Sam, you do know how and where gold forms right?
I don't know what the heck you're talking about.
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