Yeah…I don’t normally do fossil prep so when they gave me a shot while visiting Fossil Butte I chose to only use the gentler sandblaster thing. Ain’t no way I’m going to be responsible for fucking up a vertebrate fossil.
Not a fossil but I managed to drop and shatter a denarius of Tiberius (tribute penny) and I’m pretty sure I went through all the same facial expressions. Fuck.
Just think, that denarius survived 2,000~ years and then…
Yeah, I hated myself for that. Still do. It kinda stopped my interest in ancient coin collecting altogether because now I feel like an unworthy loser who shouldn’t be near any such artifacts in the first place.
If I was my own boss I’d have fired me.
:( aw man don’t think that. You know it was super fragile and it is not like you did it on purpose.
Also you could display the pieces ‘exploded’ and it would be dope AF.
Well, I do still have the pieces, and you can clearly see the silver has crystallized inside (which is both a sign of authenticity and an explanation for its brittleness) so I’m keeping it as a metallurgical curiosity rather than a piece of history.
No reason it can’t be both!
I feel less bad now for knocking over and spilling an expensive reagent. At least they can make more of that! 🫣
