Golden Horns Geocoin Family EC Coin

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Released:
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Origin:
Denmark
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Just travel arround I don't like difficult multi and unknown caches.

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The Golden Horns of Gallehus were two horns made of gold, one shorter than the other, discovered in Gallehus, north of Tønder in South Jutland, Denmark. The longer horn of the two was found in 1639, and the second in 1734, 15-20 meters apart from the first discovery. The horns are believed to have dated to the fifth century and depict mythological figures of uncertain origin. The smaller of the two bore a Proto-Norse Elder Futhark inscription.

The original horns were stolen and melted down. However, copies based on illustrations of the original horns were produced and are exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark and the Moesgaard Museum, near Aarhus, Denmark. Since then, copies of the horns have been stolen (and retrieved) twice.
Read more about them here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horns_of_Gallehus

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Tracking History (5657mi) View Map

Dropped Off 1/23/2010 The Searchdog placed it in You can see for miles and miles and miles Southern Scotland, United Kingdom - 13.82 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/17/2010 The Searchdog retrieved it from "About Half-Way" Southern Scotland, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Moving on
Dropped Off 10/11/2009 boats2 placed it in "About Half-Way" Southern Scotland, United Kingdom - 16.72 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/12/2009 boats2 retrieved it from Pentland Ridge Multi-Cache Southern Scotland, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Found in the Pental Ridge Multi-Cache. For a coin that doesn't like difficult multi's this was in the wrong place! Will move on somewhere a bit easier soon.
Dropped Off 7/5/2009 tele420 placed it in Pentland Ridge Multi-Cache Southern Scotland, United Kingdom - 610.08 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/29/2009 tele420 retrieved it from Stark Southern Scotland, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Found in a graveyard - will try to find somewhere cheerier for its first visit to Scotland.
Dropped Off 6/14/2009 Kristoffer Boesen placed it in Stark Southern Scotland, United Kingdom - 609.68 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/11/2009 Kristoffer Boesen retrieved it from Magnoliavej og lidt til Denmark   Visit Log

Grabbed it in the quiet rain. If time to go hunting it'll go to Scotland. Nice coin!
Dropped Off 6/9/2009 spiril placed it in Magnoliavej og lidt til Denmark - 49.06 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/21/2009 spiril retrieved it from Etapestart Møns Klint / Sjællandsleden Denmark   Visit Log

Found this - and then got so mad about the next (and last cache of the day) that I forgot to drop it off.

Now I'll hold on to it, until I can drop it off - Hmmmm, perhaps I should save for my trip to Iceland.....
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