Smithsonite Var. Monheimite – Altenberg, Aachen, Germany
 Ex Anton Berger (Before 1929, his labels were typed from 1929 onwards)
 Former P. Pichler Collection, acquired in 1967
 Historic Monheimite specimen with super luster from Altenberg near Aachen!
 The mineral monheimite was named after the German chemist Johann Peter Joseph Monheim (1786 to 1855), who was the first to identify the mineral.
 The name Monheimite is due to the mineralogist Gustav Adolf Kenngott (1818 to 1897), who first used the term Monheimite in 1853.
 Monheimite was discovered in Altenberg near Aachen