Vincent van Gogh Geocoin (Antique Bronze)

The Vincent van Gogh Geocoin was designed by Mr. Van Stoffelen Sr. The below shown information related to the geocoin were taken from his website: "huiberst.info".

Vincent van Gogh Geocoin

Vincent Willem van Gogh lived from 30 March 1853 till 29 July 1890. He was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th century art for its vivid colors and emotional impact. He suffered from anxiety and increasingly frequent bouts of mental illness throughout his life, and died largely unknown, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Design

The Vincent van Gogh Geocoin is round shaped, has a size of 1.75″ (approx. 44 mm) and was a co-design by geocachingshop.nl and Van Stoffelen Sr. This is the first geocoin designed together with the geocachingshop.nl which is located in Nuenen in the province of Noord-Brabant in The Netherlands. Vincent made several paintings in Nuenen which led to the idea of this geocoin.

The front of this geocoin is designed after Vincent’s 1885 painting ‘Wheatfields with stokes and a Mill’. This mill is in fact the Roosdonck mill, which is still in use. Nearby this mill a geocache can be found. The other side of the geocoin is designed after a self-portrait of Vincent.

Finishings:

In total 594 tracking codes were registred and seven different finishings of the Vincent van Gogh Geocoin minted:

• Antique Bronze   RE
• Antique Silver   RE
• Antique Copper   LE (75 made)
• Foggy Gold    LE (75 made)
• Foggy Silver   LE (75 made)
• Shiny Gold    XLE (10 made)
• Shiny Silver    XLE (10 made)

Vincent van Gogh Geocoin (antique bronze)

The Vincent van Gogh Geocoin is one of the geocoins I have retrieved out of the JackHoe collection! I really appreciate the opportunity to get a part of his stunning dutch geocoin collection

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