FOSSILS--- An Ancient Alternative

Wow! bit off more than he could chew...

Talk about biting.

4" Spinosaurus Tooth

 

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Sweet!

 

Cool addition guys!!

Amazing how many of us simply can't resist fossils and other collectibles...

I'm currently adding a few high detailed trilobites, a couple of T-Rex teeth, a meteorite and even a Mastodon tooth LOL.

 

Cool! Well, I once purchased and held Ivory Tusk figurines for 2 days while traveling in Hong Kong and China area. Read up on it, and the fines were HUGE for an American to bring it into the States. Boo-boo on my part. Took them back, and traded them for MAMMOTH TUSK figurines... Color is darker, but was WAY COOL that they were 50,000 years old. They are the Chinese Zodiac animals for my wife and my birth years. I purchased these many years ago; they are perfectly legal as the species is not endangered, rather they are extinct.

Re-sculpted fossil?


Cool detail:


I thought about actually buying a whole Mammoth Tusk, but that would had been one of my kids' university education...

 

WOW!! Excellent detail !!

I'm also considering a few mammoth teeth and even a hairy Rhino molar....and I purchased two coins and have two on layaway while considering a couple more----then my buying ends and doesn't start again until late April eek: Tax time LOL)

BTW: One of my new coins is a denarius with the 'poking a pig' reverse that I'm sure you already have and I've been wanting for quite a while...RE:


Ti. Veturius; 137 BC, Denarius, 3.90g. Cr-234/1, Syd-527, RSC Veturia-1. Obv: Helmeted and draped bust of Mars r., X and TI VET behind. Rx: Youth kneeling l., between two warriors who touch with their swords a pig which he holds, ROMA above.. Toned VF

 

Yeah, the detail was so cool in the carvings. They are about 3cm tall, and just cool. They were a bit pricey, but worth it as I have had them for over a decade. (SUNK cost).

Yeah, the Veturius is a COOL coin... Very solemn "Swearing Oath" scene, that was copied by the Marsic Confederation in the Social War against Rome. The 8 Original Tribes of the Confederation are lined up taking the Oath. Big-time solemn, as their lives and potential extinction (Samnites), were on the line! They won the war by getting all the demands agreed to by the Senate, but lost militarily, and some were wiped out (Samnites).


Roman Republic - Veturius 137 BCE AR Denenarius Mars X Oath Scene pig Sear 111 Craw 234/1

Can't wait to see your Veturius!!!


Marsic Confederation denarius 90-88 BCE Italia-Corfinium Sear 227

 

Those are neat

 

LOVE both Brian!!!

I still have to photograph my example....I'll try tomorrow

 

Meanwhile, here's a few photos...

My newest trilobite examples; an 85 gram meteor and my Mastodon tooth:

 

BTW: The trilobites are between 2 inches long (last) and three inches long (1st two) and the Mastodon tooth is over 3 1/2 inches across.

This T-Rex tooth is over 3 inches long with the usual serrations:

 

Ima jonesin' on those fossils, Dude! Now YOU are going to cost me some money!!!

 

Holy cow! That tooth is insane!

Thanks everybody. I now need more fossils ALMOST as much as I need more coins.

Erin

 

Hmmm... Now I need to decide: Do I put my money into petrified DEAD BODY PARTS, or into LUMPS OF METAL... decisions, decisions...

 

Lol. The struggle is real!

Erin

 

I love how you can see all the lenses on the eyes. Very cool!

 

One last photo....or two

This is a three inch tooth of a 'African T-Rex' which goes back to 95 million years ago---well before the more well-known version disappeared circa 66 million years ago---and the later T-Rex is stated to either have 'evolved' or 'devolved from the earlier 'relative'. The African variety was apparently a bit larger, had a more powerful bite and had slightly longer arms, although still proportionally small for its size.

 

If any CoinTalkers travel through Southern Connecticut perhaps you could send us a PM. We could play with coins & visit the Peabody Museum in New Haven. I don't believe Anoob has yet taken his son to see the museum's recently expanded rock & mineral display. The Peabody Museum exhibits also include dramurals, meteorites, mummies, and a rather awesome fossil collection:



Everyone has posted some remarkable fossils in this thread.

Here is an antique snail (Perisphinctes) from my collection which I believe lived during the Jurassic period:

(Of course, the shell on the left is modern).

 

Those are absolutely beautiful !!!!

Damn, now I need one or two LOL

 

I had to look it up. I found this photo. AMAZING!!!

 

Yeah, pretty amazing. There is a major land port between Russia and China right at the tip of Mongolia. An internal Port City called Manzhouli. I have been there and have seen an unbelievable amount of raw materials and product that flows through there. Including wood, gas, metals, and all kinds of raw materials from Russia. Finished product flows from China's manufacturing back into Russia. I understand Russia exports mammoth tusks that they harvest in northern Siberia as raw material to China to process. China hand carves them into various figurines. Nice stuff. I understand that within the last 10 years, this has been slowed / stopped due to the scarcity of the tusks / mammoth ivory.

Do you see why I did not get one? (besides, ahem, the expense...) That would have been fun to have carried onto a plane back to the States...