r/BeAmazed • u/freudian_nipps • Aug 25 '26

Nature This massive Amethyst geode

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u/NoTimeForCautionCoop Aug 25 '26

I think I found this exact one online. Here is a piece of the article describing it and is cost:

https://www.bonhams.com/press_release/31158/

Weighing 14 metric tonnes and standing at 5 metres tall and 2 and a half metres wide, this vividly coloured geode is the largest amethyst ever to be offered at auction. Originating from Uruguay, the amethyst sparkles in various hues of lilac, rose and blue depending on the light shined upon it. To add to the colour, there is the presence of very rare yellow hemispherical calcite crystals. It comes to Bonhams Natural History Sale in Los Angeles on December 3, and has an estimate of $300,000-400,000.

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u/fishsticks40 Aug 25 '26

If I were a billionaire things like this is how you would know.

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u/Jindabyne1 Aug 25 '26

People spend a million on a baseball card, I’d get two of these instead

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u/ShireXennial Aug 26 '26

An excellent pair of bookends for the giant illuminated manuscripts I would commission.

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick Aug 25 '26

I would fly blimps with my face over every event possible.  Just my face and a website with just my face on it and nothing more.  No product to sell, no reason to have the website beyond just having my face on it.  The absolute, most horrible waste of money in history.  Brewster has nothing on me.

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee Aug 26 '26

I highly disagree. There isn’t a change in hell that this would be ended remotely considered the “absolute, most horrible waste of money in history”. I’m pretty sure the Commander-in-Cheeto takes the top 10, alone…

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u/CelestialTrickster Aug 26 '26

So, kiiiinda like Kanye did with his Superbowl commercial? Although he did try to sell a t-shirt...

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick Aug 26 '26

Yeah, maybe.  No swastikas though.

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u/19467098632 Aug 26 '26

How I’d die as a billionaire. “Yeah man one of the cats knocked it over right onto her.” If you thinks it’s too heavy I promise my cats would find a way

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u/thoak74 Aug 26 '26

Perfect for the great room I would say, wouldn’t you?

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u/bipoca Aug 25 '26

Under half a million is way less than I expected.

Probably costs a five digit number just to get in shipped.

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u/coolcootermcgee Aug 26 '26

That’s what I thought

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u/Current_Finding_4066 Aug 25 '26

Thanks. I am sure it will look great wherever it end up.

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u/blade_torlock Aug 25 '26

Probably a museum as a write off for someone, either a gift or a loan.

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u/NeasM Aug 25 '26

Or Dolly Partons headstone

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u/always_lost1610 Aug 25 '26

This gets my vote

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u/mblack4d Aug 25 '26

Too soon? Just read that moments before this post.

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u/NeasM Aug 25 '26

Spectacular headstone for a spectacular lady.

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u/spike55151 Aug 25 '26

How much for the other half?

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u/Loose-Combination918 Aug 25 '26

in rich countrys you could sell this even up to a million or more. i saw smaller once than this being sold 600k. it had the form of wings maybe that added value

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u/Viniox Aug 25 '26

I’m sure it would be worth more if someone didn’t get globs of spray foam all over it….

/s.

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u/gao7on Aug 26 '26

So worth less than a brick of gold.

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u/coolcootermcgee Aug 26 '26

That sounds ridiculously cheap

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u/TheIlluminaughty Aug 26 '26

Here's a little more detail: https://rockseeker.com/the-most-expensive-geode/

The auction took place in 2020 but I wasn't able to find if it was ever purchased by anyone.

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u/sonerec725 Aug 26 '26

Thats. . . . . .surprisingly way cheaper than I thought it would be

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u/Brief-Curious Aug 26 '26

I would expect it to be worth more to be honest. 400k doesn't sound much for such huge specimen.