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$2500
Many questions and very few answers surround this meteorite. Historical records indicate it was found in the mountains SE of Tucson sometime around 1850 (in what was pre-Gadsden Purchase Mexico). It was used by a blacksmith as an anvil and later bought by a US cavalry officer before its long journey to the Smithsonian. To this day scores of hunters still seek "the Holy Grail" of meteorites, certain there still exists more of this most unusual meteorite. Tucson is an ungrouped ataxite-very high nickel content,>20%.
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