I received an email this week from literature dealer John Burns. In reply to last week's E-Sylum issue, he responded "Yes". Uh, OK ... yes, what??If this were Jeopardy, the question would have to be, "Are you a pain in the @ss, or what?"It turns out he was referring to the question"Has there ever been a coin, token or medal made from ore from a meteorite? "

Somewhat more helpfully Larry Korchnak writes:

Eric Holcomb writes:

Kavan Ratnatunga writes:

In particular see the Perth Mint 2009 Australian NCLT. Seewww.sterlingcurrency.com.au/items/2009-5-silver
-proof-coin-international-year-astronomy-meteorite

The moon rocks were encased in an acrylic button. Please see these links:

www.collectspace.com/resources/moonrocks_apollo11.html
www.collectspace.com/resources/moonrocks_goodwill.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_moon_rocks

I did track down the Goodwill rock in Colombo Museum and provided image.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: OCTOBER 16, 2011(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v14n43a10.html)