Belgium Flag Micro Geocoin Belgium Flag Kiekefretter Geocoin - Ghent

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Origin:
Washington, United States
Recently Spotted:
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This coin is one of a series of six sibling coins. Each is characterized by a different Belgian city name. The six coins are in competition to travel the longest distance. Hopefully some of them will travel back to Belgium.

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Belgium Flag Kiekefretter microcoin

The owner was born in Brussels, capital of Belgium, just one block from the Grand Place - the Market Place at the center of the city. His nickname "kiekefretter" has been given to the inhabitants of Brussels since the 14th century. It means "chicken eater". In the 14th century the merchants of the duchy of Brabant travelling in the region of the Rhine River were regularly attacked by brigands with the blessing of the duke of Julich. Wenceslas de Luxembourg, duke of Brabant, organized a punitive expedition with 8,000 knights from Brussels loaded with food and hundreds of chichens. During the battle, burdened with all that food, the knights were not able to properly maneuver their horses and were defeated. Since that time the inhabitants of Brussels have been called "chicken eater" or kiekefretters.

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Tracking History (11376.3mi) View Map

Write note 8/22/2011 ISPYU168 posted a note for it   Visit Log

I am sorry to report that I have checked my cache (A Diamond of a View) and was unable to find your geocoin in it, so unless someone has taken it and has yet to log that they did, I expect that it has gone missing. I have disabled my cache because this has happened other time recently, and I suspect a muggle has located and is regularly plundering it for TB's and Geocoins.
Sorry for the bad news,
ISPYU168 aka Bob
Mark Missing 8/22/2011 ISPYU168 marked it as missing   Visit Log

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Dropped Off 6/18/2011 BigFudge placed it in A Diamond of a View! Washington - 87.75 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in A Diamond of a View!
Discovered It 6/17/2011 LunaticSpawn discovered it   Visit Log

Thanks for the discovery.
Retrieve It from a Cache 6/1/2011 BigFudge retrieved it from 011-Danekas Washington   Visit Log

thanks for the trackable!!
Discovered It 6/1/2011 tinabina27 discovered it   Visit Log

thanks for the trackable!!
Dropped Off 5/30/2011 Mr. Gadget #2 placed it in 011-Danekas Washington - 131.06 miles  Visit Log
Discovered It 5/29/2011 EFHutton discovered it   Visit Log

Spotted this one in Fish Race Lookout while camping in the area. Thanks for the discovery!
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/29/2011 Mr. Gadget #2 retrieved it from Fish Race Lookout Washington   Visit Log

picked it up and will drop it soon
Dropped Off 5/27/2011 TWEEKS placed it in Fish Race Lookout Washington - 39.07 miles  Visit Log
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