Golden Horns Geocoin ;- mazanti's Golden Horns Geocoin no. 2

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Released:
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Origin:
Denmark
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In Denmark, close to the German border, two horns made of gold were found in a field at Gallehus. The first was found in year 1639 and the second  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 jeweleries under a false name.
The goldsmith was caught and put to prisson 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.Based on this true story we made the Golden Horns Geocoin. They can now be ordered via this webshop at http://www.geocoin.dk.
There are two variants, both with Golden horns, but one is with gold edge and gold text, the other is with silver edge and silver text. They are trackable on geocaching.com with their own icon. The coins proudly carry the "DK" tracking code prefix, being designed in Denmark, and the text "Geocaching in Denmark - hiding treasures since the Iron Age".

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Discovered It 5/26/2024 ThLiers discovered it   Visit Log

zusammen mit der großenKaiserin und Dantrag gesehen
Discovered It 5/19/2024 diugenera discovered it   Visit Log

Gezeigt von der GroßenKaiserin
Discovered It 5/17/2024 Loewenfred discovered it   Visit Log

Gezeigt bekommen, vielen Dank dafür
Discovered It 5/15/2024 poppyline discovered it   Visit Log

Beim „De gamle holder formiddagspause i det grønne 28 ;)“ Event durfte ich die Kiste mit den Coins bestaunen. Wirklich schöne Exemplare sind dabei. Danke fürs Zeigen und Grüße aus dem Barnim!
Discovered It 5/15/2024 Stinamay discovered it   Visit Log

Set til Eventet "De gamle holder formiddagspause i det grønne 28 ;)".
Discovered It 5/15/2024 großeKaiserin discovered it   Visit Log

Heute auf dem Event durfte ich mir diesen TB anschauen, herzlichen Dank!
Discovered It 5/1/2024 SalvisJ8ASISTENTE discovered it   Visit Log

I’ve seen it in nice event.
Many thanks to CO for sharing it. 👍
Greetings from Latvia 😉
Discovered It 5/1/2024 Akeris discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered it during my first geo-event in Denmark De gamle holder formiddagspause i det grønne 27 ;) [GCANTTG]. 😉
Many thanks to CO Jesper for sharing items from your geo-collection. 👍
Greetings from Latvia 😉
Discovered It 5/1/2024 britispriti discovered it   Visit Log

Beim Event von mazanti_ bei Vrøgum gesehen

Danke für´s Zeigen sagen britispriti
Discovered It 5/1/2024 akbk discovered it   Visit Log

Sett på event i Vrøgum1.mai .
Takk for titten.
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