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Author Topic: Big disc unknown what it is heard some coins very very large ?  (Read 2054 times)

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Offline Yvonne F

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Disc heavy stone gold color found in illinois creek seam all the way around disc on sides images are faded but still I think I see a man arms outstretched holding a sword and a man seated behind him older priest like other side seems to have a face image hair type a bun any help.    thank you

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Re: Big disc unknown what it is heard some coins very very large ?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2018, 06:49:00 am »
Its a piece of laminated ferrous sandstone. The images you make out are your imagination making 'sense' of of the differently spalling layers of the rock.... a lithological Rorschach test!
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