Mercator Geocoin Mercator Geocoin (Antique Silver)

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Owner:
Geo-Dragonchild Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, March 5, 2012
Origin:
Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
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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 (antique silver) - regular editionMercator Geocoin

The Mercator Geocoin is a geocoin out of 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 9/26/2015 00pie discovered it   Visit Log

Hallo Marcel,
wat leuk dat ik je op het GeocoinFest 2015 in Eindhoven heb getroffen en gesproken. En inderdaad wat jammer dat we geen foto hebben gemaakt.
Evengoed hartstikke bedankt dat je de lijst met codes van je geweldige serie coins aan me heb toegestuurd.
Hartelijke geogroeten uit Horst en nog heel veel plezier van je collectie!!!
Hans...aka DeOOpies
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Team Dorus discovered it   Visit Log

Tijdens het Geocoinfest 2015 in Eindhoven heb ik de nederlandse geocoins van Geo Dragonchild bewonderd. Een aantal herkende ik uit mijn eigen verzameling maar er waren ook een aantal voor mij totaal onbekende nederlandse coins bij. Bedankt voor het tonen van je collectie.

Eric (Team Dorus).
Discovered It 9/26/2015 ErwinKarin discovered it   Visit Log

Wij hebben Marcel aka Geo-Dragonchild ontmoet tijdens de GeoCoinFest in Eindhoven, waar hij deze indrukwekkende Dutch Geocoin Collectie verzameling hebben mogen aanschouwen en discoveren. Na een leuk gesprek over onze hobby werd er een foto gemaakt en informatie geruild. Het was leuk om je te ontmoeten. Bedankt voor alles.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Toho_NL discovered it   Visit Log

Seen at the Geocoinfest 2015 in Eindhoven.
Thanks for showing.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 swamaberlin discovered it   Visit Log

In Eindhoven beim Geocoin-Fest 2015 konnten wir diese tolle Sammlung live bewundern :-) !!
Vielen Danke und Grüße aus Berlin.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 MartinMirja discovered it   Visit Log

Thanks for sharing your collection with us at the Geocoinfest 2015 in Eindhoven.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 AMTS discovered it   Visit Log

Vandaag zijn we aanwezig op het Geocoinfest in Eindhoven. Al eerder waren we op grotere events aanwezig, maar nog niet eerder op een die gericht is op coins.
Vol verbazing hebben we rondgelopen en de mooie aanwezige coins bewonderd. Ook bekenden kwamen we met een verzameling tegen, we hebben even gezellig bij gesproken.
Op de zelfde etage kwamen we ook deze mooie verzameling tegen. Goed beschermd lagen ze aan te glimmen in de kast. Bedankt voor het laten zien van deze mooie collectie!

Discovered It 9/26/2015 misicos discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at the GeocoinFest in Eindhoven, where we really enjoyed the atmosphere, the people and the superb collections of geocoins. This one was there on display and it was one that we liked the most.
It is really amazing... Thanks to Geo-Dragonchild for showing us!
Greetings from Mojácar- Andalucía- Spain.<br />Log realizado virtualmente mediante <b>www.Geoardilla.es</b>
Discovered It 9/26/2015 stakkes discovered it   Visit Log

Nadat we een mooie foto namen voor de verzameling tijdens het geocionfest kregen we TB code's om deze te loggen. Zeer mooie verzamling, doe zo verder.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 tulak discovered it   Visit Log

Seen in a very nice collection exhibited at Geocoinfest Netherlands Mega event in Eindhoven. I got the code thanks to its owner and exhibitor. I wish many successes with your collection.
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