“The Seer Stone was the shape of an egg though not quite so large, of a gray cast something like granite but with white stripes running round it. It was transparent but with no holes, neither in the end or in the sides.”

Richard M. Robinson (Shown by Lorenzo Snow in 1900), Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 24, Spencer, “Seers & Stones: Translation of the Book of Mormon” (Orem, UT: Interpreter, 2017), 57; See also The History of a Nephite Coin, pages 4-5.