[meteorite-list] AD - Rare roman coin with meteorite theme on Ebay

[drtanuki]

Dear Darren, Martin and List,
  Darren and Martin, am I putting words into your
mouth that do not escape?  Why is a list member
selling an autograph of one of the biggest MURDERERS
on EARTH??  Why is Adoph Hitler`s autograph being
offered by anyone; let anyone on this list????   SHAME
 ON YOU MATTEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Was your link to a
common coin to lead the NAZI lovers to YOU?  Sick!!!! 
Burn such a sick piece of ink!!!!!!  $900 for a fake?
autograph of a MURDERER.  Matteo, even I feel shame
for you.  Dirk Ross..Tokyo

--- Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 02:53:17 +0200, "Martin Altmann"
> <Altmann at Meteorite-Martin.de> wrote:
> 
> >Yes, Darren, one stone survived.
> >The holy stone of the temple of Paphos on Cyprus,
> which is depicted on many
> >classical coins (Traian, Vespasian, Drusus,
> Caracalla and so on),
> >was recovered by excavations on  the temple site
> more than hundred years
> >ago.
> >It was kept in the cellar and the stock of the
> National museum in Nikosia
> >for an eternity,
> >until it was transportated to the local
> archeological museum in Kouklia,
> >where it's now exhibited.
> >
> >Never a sample was taken for authentification.
> 
> One of the sad things about being a specialist in
> one feild of science means that you tend to not
> have much knowledge of/interest in other feilds.  I
> often wonder how many meteorites paleontologists
> have walked over in the desert, and how many
> valuable fossils meteorite hunters have walked over.
> (Like, for example, Peter Douglas Ward's work in the
> Karoo desert as described in his recent book
> Gorgon-- seems like prime meteorite country, and he
> and his people likely kicked a few meteorites
> out of the way in their scouring the desert for
> bone).
> 
> I knew that a ancient fall in a temple in Japan was
> still known, but I hadn't ever heard that one of
> the ancient Greek ones had been recovered.  (It
> reminds me of the book The First Fossil Hunters
> which attempts to trace many ancient legends and
> worshiped objects to fossils-- see
> http://www.2think.org/fossilhunters.shtml)
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