Trilobite Geocoin Trilobite Geocoin - BN(shiny)

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Owner:
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Released:
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Origin:
British Columbia, Canada
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

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The Trilobite Geocoin was designed and minted by Tethys C and C-Side Girl in honor of the 100 year anniversary (30.th August 1909 - 30.th August 2009) of the epoch making discovery of the Burgess Shale Formation by Charles Doolittle Walcott.

The Burgess Shale Formation (named after Mount Burgess, elevation 2,599 m, a mountain in Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies) is one of the worlds most popular and fascinating fossil records made famous for the exceptional preservation of soft bodied animals. This exceptional Pre-Cambrian fossil record was discovered by the paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1909 and this formation became his life's work. Between 1909 and 1924, Charles Doolittle Walcott returned several times to the ridge, establishing a quarry, collected over 65,000 specimens and made them available for paleontologic researches.

Picture Cambrian sea

About the Geocoin:

The Trilobite Geocoin is in the shape of a Kootenia trilobite still partially embedded in it’s rock matrix, with a map showing the Burgess Shale Formation on the opposite side. The geological age of Burgess Shale is shown on top "Cambrian Age" (approx. 500 million years BC) as well as the names of the geocoin designers on the upper left side.

Picture of Trilobite GeocoinPicture of original trilobite

In total 450 coins of the Trilobite Geocoin were minted 2009.
Five finishes of the coin are known:

  • Antique Silver (Landshark-Edition)
    blue / green / darkbrown glitter,
    200 minted (2 batches of 100)
     
  • Antique Bronze (Personal Edition)
    darkblue / green / black,
    limited edition, only 100 minted
     
  • Black Nickel (Personal Edition)
    blue / green / grey,
    limited edition, only 50 minted
     
  • Antique Silver (Personal Edition)
    blue / green / copper glitter,
    limited edition, only 50 minted
     
  • Antique Silver / Polished Gold (Personal Edition)
    blue / green / sand glitter,
    limited edition, only 50 minted
     

About This Item

Trilobite Geocoin - black nickel (glänzend) - LE50 - Total Records:450 - prefix:TC

geocoin - front Picture taken by "gdci608"

Trilobite Geocoin - black nickel (glänzend) - LE50 - Total Records:450 - prefix:TC

The Trilobite Geocoin is one of the geocoins in the collection of -flying-dutchman-.

The aim of this geocoin is to please everyone who looks at this beautiful geocoin and discovered it
 

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Discovered It 11/22/2015 Teamgolvis discovered it   Visit Log

The 22/11 2015 is a special day, I do not want to miss.
Geo-dragon child organizes Trackable discovery in Stensjö By and shows her Coin.
A large and fine collection with different orientations. It takes a moment to look over the collection there was much to be seen.

Thank you for sharing with you and I got to see your collection.
Discovered It 11/22/2015 oscarsundas discovered it   Visit Log

Saw this at the very nice (but a bit cold) TB-discovery-event in Stensjö By. :) Thanks a lot for showing me this. It is really an impressing collection you have!

I also were in Stensjö By for the first time since i started geocaching, but there will definitly be more times!

Again, thanks a lot!

Discovered It 9/28/2015 wellner discovered it   Visit Log

Looked through the collection a monday morning at Geo-Dragonchilds place in Oskarshamn. I stayed over at his place after we drove from Geocoinfest in Eindhoven. Great company and great talking to you in the car. See you again soon!

Oh, and thanks for letting me log your collection =)
Discovered It 9/17/2015 heanigan discovered it   Visit Log

Heel erg bedankt voor het tonen van de mooie serie coins 😉 Geo-Dragonchild 🙂
Met een beetje geluk 👍 treffen we elkaar op het Geocoin fest in Eindhoven 😎.

Geo groeten van,

Heanig an
Let's cache, discover and log on!
Discovered It 7/19/2015 N00bg0d discovered it   Visit Log

sågs på event i stensjö by
Discovered It 7/19/2015 skrattjakt discovered it   Visit Log

What a mighty collection of trackables! I really enjoyed it.

I had a look among them while we met at the event in Stensjöby.

Thanks for showing.
Discovered It 7/19/2015 vimpen discovered it   Visit Log

Såg den på ett event i stensjöby.
Discovered It 7/19/2015 MacGyver72 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered this TB/Coin/Nametag at the "Meet and greet in Stensjö By" event and i had a wonderful time. Thanks for sharing it with me.
Discovered It 7/19/2015 Team JYJMA discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at Stensjöby, Oskarshamn at the Meet and greet event. TFTB!
Discovered It 7/19/2015 helensfamily discovered it   Visit Log

Seen on Meet-and-greet event in Stensjö by, Kalmar. Thanks for showing us!
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