[meteorite-list] AD: NEW meteorite coin, NWA 869 metal coin for sale.

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:28:36 -0500
Message-ID: <057901c7eb3b$f664afa0$2850e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, All,

    I do not say this in any way to criticize the
manufacture, sale, nor trade in this item, nor
the seller nor buyers of it, but this is a member
of a very clear-cut class of items.

    An NWA 869 Meteorite Coin is a Collectable.
So is any meteorite "coin" or your box of beloved
Babylon 5 Commemorative Plates or a Souvenir
Spoon from the 1939 New York World's Fair or
a ceramic Wall Plaque of Old Faithful or a Baseball
Card or a Beanie Baby or all Olympic Pins or
Star Trek Memorabillia or Action Figures...

    A Collectable (or Collectible, take your pick;
nobody seems to know which is right) is an Object
specifically made To Be Collected. It is almost
always in the form of a common object combined
with an often irrelevant point of interest for whose
sake it is Collected.

    One could as well have made and sell a Meteorite
Zippo lighter or set of Meteorite Trading Cards or a
Meteorite Music Box or any of the many hundreds
of different things that could have a meteorite mounted
in or on it or not have an actual meteorite at all, like a
Series of Commemorative Plates of historic observed
falls (Ensisheim, Wold Cottage, L'Aigle... right up to
Holbrook and Sikhote-Alin).

    Is it a Coin, a Metal, a Token, a Beanie Baby?

    No. It's a Collectable.


Sterling K. Webb
Received on Thu 30 Aug 2007 03:28:36 PM PDT