Money Agate Tower, Red and Cream Brecciated Agate Crystal Point, 9 Inch Polished Obelisk with Orbicular Eyes

Look closely and the whole stone is a picture of something breaking and then being put back together.

This is a polished brecciated agate tower, 9 inches tall and about 1.5 inches across the base, weighing 1 lb 2.9 oz. Rust red runs through cream and soft grey, and scattered across every face are pale rounded discs and rings, some the size of a thumbnail, some no bigger than a seed. Near the top the color cools into pale green and smoky white, and the red brightens considerably in daylight.

DETAILS
Brecciated agate, often sold as money agate
Six sided tower with a faceted point
9 inches tall, about 1.5 inches across the base
Weighs 1 lb 2.9 oz
Root and Solar Plexus chakras

Sellers usually call this money agate, and that is the name to search for if you want more of it, but there is no mineral by that name. It is brecciated agate. Breccia means a rock that shattered and then got cemented back together, and that is exactly what happened here. The stone broke, silica rich water seeped into every gap, and agate grew in the spaces and glued the fragments into something new. Those pale discs and rings people read as scattered coins, and where the money name comes from, are cross sections of that healing. Which is a better story than the trade name, and it is also true.

The money association has stuck for long enough to be lore in its own right. People who work with it lean on it for prosperity in the practical sense, the steady kind that comes from work paying off rather than luck arriving. It gets kept in the places where money is actually handled, a desk, a till, a studio where things are made and sold. Crystal workers pair it with the root for security and the solar plexus for the nerve to ask for what your work is worth.

Underneath that, brecciated agate carries the older agate quality of steadiness. Agates are the patient stones, forming in slow layers over enormous stretches of time, and this one adds the idea of a thing made stronger at the break. There is a reason the pattern appeals. Everyone recognizes it. It looks like a life. The best bits are often right where the joins are.

At 9 inches she reads from across a room, and towers this shape are usually set where you will pass them, a shelf, a windowsill, the corner of a desk. The red in her wakes up properly in the afternoon.

This is a natural stone, not a manufactured object. Color and pattern vary considerably across the six faces, there are fine natural lines where the fragments meet, and small variations in the polish. None of that is damage. That is the record of the break and the mending, and it is the entire appeal of the material.

Because natural minerals are delicate and can be damaged by the stress of shipping, we are unable to accept returns. If your item arrives damaged, please contact us within 48 hours with photos and we will make it right.