Mercator Geocoin Mercator Geocoin (Antique Silver/Polished Copper) AE

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Owner:
Geo-Dragonchild Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, March 5, 2012
Origin:
Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

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The Mercator Geocoin was designed by the geocacher technetium who minted the coin together with the Geocoinshop.

The idea of the geocoin was to honer Gerardus Mercator who was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician. 2012 marked the 500th anniversary of Mercator's birth. Born on 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde (Belgium) he would had been 500 Years old on the day the geocoin was released for purchase.

Gerardus Mercator is best known for his work in cartography, in particular the world map of 1569 based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines. He was also the first to use the term "atlas" for a collection of maps.

The Mercator Projection

The Mercator projection is a cylindrical map projection presented by the Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. It became the standard map projection for nautical purposes because of its ability to represent lines of constant course, known as rhumb lines or loxodromes, as straight segments that conserve the angles with the meridians. While the linear scale is equal in all directions around any point, thus preserving the angles and the shapes of small objects (which makes the projection conformal), the Mercator projection distorts the size of objects as the latitude increases from the Equator to the poles, where the scale becomes infinite. So, for example, landmasses such as Greenland and Antarctica appear much larger than they actually are relative to land masses near the equator, such as Central Africa.

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Final Artwork of the Mercator Geocoin

About the Mercator Geocoin :

Set of Mercator Geocoins

In total seven different finishings were minted for the Mercator Geocoin. The coins are listed and shown below:

  • Mercator Geocoin (antique silver) RE
  • Mercator Geocoin (antique gold) RE
  • Mercator Geocoin (polished silver) XLE 75
  • Mercator Geocoin (polished gold) XLE 75
  • Mercator Geocoin (antique copper/antique silver) XLE 75
  • Mercator Geocoin (antique silver/antique gold) XLE 75
  • Mercator Geocoin (antique silver/polished copper) AE

Mercator Geocoin - front

 

Mercator Geocoin (antique silver/polished copper) - artist edition

Mercator Geocoin - back

The Mercator Geocoin is a geocoin out of the stunning collection of JackHoe and has been transferred to the personal collection of Geo-Dragonchild. The aim of this geocoin is to please everyone who looks at this beautiful geocoin and discovered it

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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 9/27/2015 MuYbJeN discovered it   Visit Log

This trackable was spotted on the geocoinfest 2015 in Eindhoven.
After discovering some new coins we decided to go geocaching by bike in the city of Eindhoven. It was a lovely day in excellent company.
Thanks for sharing these coins.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 EAH_NL discovered it   Visit Log

Seen at the "Geocoinfest Europe 2015 Netherlands" (GC5E266) at 26 sept 2015.
Thanks for showing it.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 biggi184 discovered it   Visit Log

danke dass ich deine tolle Sammlung auf dem Geocoinfest in Eindhoven discovern durfte
Discovered It 9/26/2015 vilcanota discovered it   Visit Log

Seen at geocoinfest in Eindhoven.
Geocoinfest was the goal of our holidays, we cross France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and Holland to come here.
We saw lot of beautiful geocoins.
Thank you to share this one with us.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 zephyrsailor discovered it   Visit Log

Seen this beautiful collection at gcf in Eindhoven, much better presented than my (very heavy) pink ammo can of coins!

We had a great day at the event!

Thanks for sharing!!!
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Bever.vw discovered it   Visit Log

Tijdens het Geocoinfest Europa in Eindhoven hebben we verlekkerd naar alle te koop zijnde Geocoins gekeken. Maar ja, best prijzig, Zeker die hele mooie vikingcoins waar we helemaal verliefd op werden maar echt boven ons budget. Daarna een rondje over de tentoonstellingsruimte om daar de verzamelingen van diverse Geocachers te mogen bewonderen waaronder deze van Geo-Dragonchild. Een schitterende collectie waar we dus even van mochten genieten. Dank daarvoor. Groet, team Bever.vw
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Breun discovered it   Visit Log

Beim "Geocoinfest Europe 2015 Netherlands" gab es ohne Ende Coins und TB's zu bewundern.
Erst Heute in der kalten Jahreszeit haben wir sie uns noch einmal am Computer angeschaut und sie discovert.

Viele Grüße aus dem Bergischen Land vom Team "Breun".
Discovered It 9/26/2015 LMGIVW discovered it   Visit Log

seen on geocpin event in eindhoven
Discovered It 9/26/2015 pinootjes discovered it   Visit Log

Tijdens het Geocoinfest Europe 2015 in Eindhoven hebben we met veel plezier deze fraaie verzameling Geocoins mogen aanschouwen. Een prachtige verzameling waar de eigenaar terecht trots op mag zijn. Veel dank voor het laten zien van deze serie Geocoins.
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