2025

Pyrite Sun on Black Slate [132888]

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Rocks, Fossils & Minerals Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 200.00 USD
Pyrite Sun on Black Slate  [132888]
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This item SOLD at 2021 May 14 @ 08:43UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Pyrite Sun (a.k.a. Pyrite Dollar, Sun Dollar, Marcasite Sun) on black shale, broken in half right through the middle. Needs repair, or mounted as a unique art piece split asunder. Your choice. The black shale is about 9 x 9 x 0.75 inches when the two pieces are aligned together. The sun is about 3.5 x 3 inches. These have been known as Marcasite Suns, marcasite being an iron sulfide like pyrite but with a different crystal structure. X-ray diffraction studies have revealed that these iron sulfide disks being found in Illinois coal mines are actually mostly pyrite, not marcasite.

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State: Illinois
City: Sparta
Provenance: William Mayrsohn Collection