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Local Color Agatized Fossil Coral is Florida's state stone. They are found in ancient ocean beds, where silica rich groundwater has percolated through them and over time has replaced it's calcium carbonate skeleton with a hard variety of Chalcedony. It is about 38-25 million years old and from the Oligocene-Miocene period. Much of these fossils have been found in the Tampa Bay area, near Ballast Point. We have this specimen in the shop now. DM for details. #explorethepast #blackagatizedcoral .

Hot Pink Pink tourmaline is a heart chakra stone. It helps heal the heart from emotional wounds, especially those dating from childhood. It is a very gentle, soothing, and nourishing stone that helps restore a sense of wholeness. Pink tourmaline shares some of the clearing and balancing characteristics of black tourmaline, but works on the emotional level. If you are struggling with an emotional response to stress, pink tourmaline can help you find calm and balance. Tourmaline strengthens the sense of smell, and in that respect, can also enhance the perception of pheromones which produces an aphrodisiac effect. #pinktourmaline #explorethepast

Take it Easy Lepidolite has a balancing nature which is great for when you are feeling anxious. If your anxiety is triggered by change this stone can ease the process of transitions. It also allows you to recognize unhelpful behavioral patterns. Lepidolite contains lithium, which is used for mood swings or depression. This stone is named after the Greek term for “scales”. We have this specimen and others in the shop now. #Lepidolite

Spirited Away This element stimulates energy and vitality and can help you to achieve your goals, especially when working as part of a team. It can be used to support transformation by aiding travel between the physical plane and realms of astral and spirit. It can also help with visualization while shamanic journeying. Bismuth aids in relieving feelings of overwhelm, isolation and loneliness. We have these specimens and more in the shop now. #bismuth #minerals

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Let’s Make a Deal Greater Jacksonville Coin Club Show will be held on Oct 23rd - 24th, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida. This show will be held at the Morocco Shrine Center. 3800 St Johns Bluff RoadJacksonville, FL 32216 Free parking Grading services - ANACS Appraisals, door prizes & raffle Ancient Artifacts & Treasures and John McIntosh will be exhibiting. Come by and say hello if you’re in town. *We have sold out of several of the silver bars, but have others not pictured. #explorethepast #coinshow #coins

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Good Show! Greater Jacksonville Coin Club Show will be held on Oct 23rd - 24th, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida. This show will be held at the Morocco Shrine Center. 3800 St Johns Bluff RoadJacksonville, FL 32216 Free parking grading services - ANACS Appraisals, door prizes & raffle Ancient Artifacts & Treasures and John McIntosh will be exhibiting. Come by and say hello.

Face Time The Phoenicians were an economic and cultural force in the Mediterranean from 1200 B.C. Their realm extended from the Syro-Palestinian coast to North Africa, and they controlled much of the trade in this region and across the Mediterranean. Pendants with men’s heads, featuring curly hair and beards, are by far the best known work of the Phoenicians. They became skilled glassworkers who fashioned technically masterful beads and developed unique forms of pendants made by core forming. These objects were often traded. The powerful port city of Carthage (located in modern Tunisia), which was established by 800 B.C., was the center of production for many of these beads and pendants. We have this bead and many others in the shop now. #explorethepast #facebeads #Phoenicia #glassbeads

Eye Spy The Minetta Camera is a subminiature camera made in Japan in 1946. Never originally intended for use as a spy camera per se, it was known no self respecting spy would be seen dead with an inferior quality camera such as this. These tiny sub-miniature (measuring barely 2”) cameras of the 1950s were initially made by the Japanese Tougodo factory. After WWII The Japanese had a period of low spending capacity so they enjoyed using cameras that didn’t use much film material. We have this camera in the shop now. #minettacamera #explorethepast

Knight School Knightia is an extinct freshwater herring from the Eocene period (about 40 to 55 million years ago). It lived with many other kinds of fishes in lakes that once covered parts of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The newly developing Rocky Mountains added sediment to the lakes that later formed the rocks in which these fossils were found. Fish can band together, sometimes in the millions, to form a school or shoal. They will move as one, like a flock of birds, so long as each fish stays in line with the fish that surround it. We have several of these specimens at the shop now. #knightia

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Christine G Rynberk is at Ancient Artifacts & Treasures, Inc. November 14 at 7:01 PM · Winter Park, FL · Spoiled my nerd side today and treated myself to a visit to my local rock shop. Look at this absolutely breathtaking Madagascar Labradorite specimen. It's nature's real hologram & you can't tell me its not filled with enchanted magic. 😭💞🌍✨🌌🌌🌌🌠✨

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Smoky Mountain High Amazonite is a soothing stone. It calms the brain and nervous system and aids in maintaining optimum health. Balances the masculine and feminine energies. Amazonite helps you to see both sides of a problem or different points of view. It soothes emotional trauma, alleviating worry and fear. The Smoky Quartz crystal is a grounding stone known for its ability to help you move on from difficult or painful experiences. It guides you to a higher state of being, a place where you can let go of the past so that it makes you better, not bitter. Leave the past in the past and move on toward a brighter future with the help of the Smoky Quartz crystal properties. #explorethepast #amazonite #smokyquartz

Higher Love Chevron-Amethyst is strong and powerful. This variety of Amethyst specifically focus on the third eye and crown chakras, activating and linking the two together. Chevron-Amethyst is known to improve self-discovery, peace of mind, and relaxation. It is also said to carry inner strength as well as courage. Chevron-amethyst makes powerful healing fields around the owner and it is great for improving the immune system and cleansing your aura. This important channel is useful when attuning and aligning yourself with higher energies and frequencies. We have many different sizes and shapes of chevron-amethyst in the shop now. #chevronamethyst

Drive Buy This is Lexi. She is super excited to be holding this meteorite from outer space. This was her first time in the shop, she drives past often but decided to stop in today, and she is sure glad she did. #StopByTheShop #explorethepast

Rainbow Brite Rainbow pyrite is known as a stone of manifestation. In early times, pyrite was polished and used as mirrors by the Native Americans. Rainbow pyrite may be used as a protective stone and is ideal for wearing as a talisman or amulet. It is believed that rainbow pyrite can promote psychic development. It’s name comes from a Greek origin “pyr” which means fire because of the brilliant colors that shimmer and can appear to change caused by differential refraction and diffraction of light. We have this specimen in the shop now. #explorethepast

Shed It Stibnite is a very strong transformation stone that activates and helps align all chakras. This crystal is associated with the planet and god Pluto, which is the ruler of all things rebirth, transformation, and power. It helps one shed their skin like that of a snake and transform you into who your truly want to be. Stibnite pushes us to be the highest version of ourselves and live a life full of things most relatable to you and your interests. This crystal brings out the best in us so that we may be able to bring out the best in others. We have this specimen in the shop now. #explorethepast #stibnite #TransformationalTuesday

Little Perks Willard Perkin (1907-1991) Good things come in small boxes. Willard Joseph "Perky" Perkin was born in Upland, San Bernardino County, California on April 3, 1907, the son of Alma and Charles J. Perkin, a Canadian-born rural mail carrier. He became interested in minerals during the mid-1930's. At the time he was operating a dry cleaning business, next door to a gift shop which sold items made with natural crystals. The proprietor of the gift shop took Perkin along on a field trip to collect specimens, and other field trips soon followed; before long he was hooked. He joined the Mineralogical Society of Southern California where he made many friends among the other collectors, including an early mineral dealer and desert rat known as "Chuckawalla Slim." He also began trading specimens with Anton Berger (q.v.), a well-known Austrian mineral dealer, eventually becoming Berger's West Coast representative, and turning into a part-time mineral dealer himself. Perkin became a regular field collector at localities throughout southern California, including the Palos Verdes cliffs and the San Benito County benitoite locality. During the war years he worked as a welder in a defense plant, but much preferred being involved with minerals. In 1949 he took night-school courses in Spanish and then (taking time off from his regular job) he made his first trip into Mexico to collect minerals; his second trip took place two years later, and dozens more trips followed, to famous mining areas throughout Mexico. The specimens he brought back went into his personal collection and also into his selling stock. Perkin was one of the first dealers to specialize in thumbnail-size specimens, and he had a talent for aesthetically trimming and mounting them. He built a fine personal mineral collection of high-quality cabinet-size and smaller specimens which he placed in drawers and on glass shelves in big glass-fronted display cases lining the walls of a small garage in his Burbank home. He also developed a strong interest in micromounting. In the early 1956-1959 he worked for three years for mineral dealer George Burnham ("Burminco") (q.v.) in Monrovia, California. While working in Burnham's shop, Perkin was shown a small, cubical, black plastic box by a traveling salesman. It inspired the invention of what became known as the "perky" box, a 1.25-inch box for thumbnail specimens, which Perkin had manufactured and which he began selling to other collectors. When the number of orders coming in became overwhelming he sold the box business to someone else, but the name "perky box" stuck. In 1971 tragedy struck in the form of the Sylmar earthquake, which shattered the glass cases and shelves in his garage; the beautiful specimens crashed to the bottom of the cases together and out onto the concrete floor amid piles of broken glass. Perkin appeared to take the loss with good grace, but much of his enthusiasm for collecting minerals had died. Soon he began selling off the surviving specimens from the drawers, retaining only his thumbnails and micromounts. Perkin retired from his regular job in 1977 and devoted himself more fully to travel, mineral dealing and flower photography. He died in Los Angeles, California on November 9, 1991, at the age of 84. His thumbnail collection was sold by his heirs to mineral dealer Keith Williams in 1996. We have literally thousands of perkys in the shop. Stop by and see them! #explorethepast

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The Big Pink Pink Tourmaline is a variety of Tourmaline that can be found in pale light pink, to bright hot pink. ... Pink Tourmaline is a stone of love, compassion, emotional healing and self love. It helps calm ones emotions in times of distress, and is the perfect stone to carry if you suffer from daily bouts of anxiety. #pinktourmaline