Golden Horns Geocoin Road Trip 2009 - Canada

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Released:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Origin:
Denmark
Recently Spotted:
In LOST MARAUDERS

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Travel the world ! - This is one of several coins set free during our seven weeks long 2009 North America roadtrip. This one was released in Canada.

About This Item

The Golden Horns. Close to the German border, two horns made of gold were found in a field at Gallehus. The first horn was found in year 1639 and the second horn in 1734. The horns were made around year 450. In 1802 the horns were stolen by a poor goldsmith named Niels Heidenreich. He melted them in his kitchen and used the gold for making jewelery under a false name. The goldsmith was caught and put to prison for 38 years. He died 4 years after getting out. Using old drawings it was possible to reconstruct copies of the horns. These copies have been on display at the National Museum in Copenhagen for many years, true national treasures of Denmark. Incredibly, the copies were stolen in 2007 while on loan to another Danish museum, but fortunately they were soon recovered by the Police.

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    Tracking History (6796mi) View Map

    Dropped Off 1/31/2012 Imastewge placed it in LOST MARAUDERS New Mexico - 3,206.03 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/20/2011 Imastewge retrieved it from Kona Brews ~ in Kona, Hawai`i Hawaii   Visit Log

    Found in HI took to NM
    Discovered It 11/20/2011 funkan discovered it   Visit Log

    Spotted in Hawai'i.
    Dropped Off 11/18/2011 CLMAC placed it in Kona Brews ~ in Kona, Hawai`i Hawaii - 167.15 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/16/2011 CLMAC retrieved it from Barack Hussein Obama: The Presidents Series Hawaii   Visit Log

    Found this in the Barack Obama cache here on Oahu. Appropriate that it was placed in that cache just in time for the President's visit to Oahu for the APEC Summit. We're leaving for a short trip to the Big Island and plan on dropping it there!
    Dropped Off 11/9/2011 AJoyfulLeo placed it in Barack Hussein Obama: The Presidents Series Hawaii - 9.99 miles  Visit Log

    Dropped in Barack Hussein Obama: The Presidents Series
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 11/9/2011 AJoyfulLeo grabbed it   Visit Log

    Neat coin. Will move along soon.

    Dropped Off 11/1/2011 Lulinuf placed it in FORE Hawaii - 2,707.05 miles  Visit Log

    Dropped in FORE
    Retrieve It from a Cache 6/4/2010 Lulinuf retrieved it from Bin Caching TB Hotel Alaska   Visit Log

    Picked up in the TB Hotel in Ketchikan and will move along, most likely to Hawaii next.
    Great story along with this TB
    Dropped Off 6/4/2010 mrspumpkin placed it in Bin Caching TB Hotel Alaska - 134.17 miles  Visit Log
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