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
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

This is not collectible.

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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 ron-radix discovered it   Visit Log

Dank voor de mogelijkheid deze TB te discoveren...
Tijdens mijn eerste mega coin-event de kans gekregen om deze te kunnen loggen op het mega coin-event in eindhoven..

veel succes met uw coins en bedankt
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Lilimops discovered it   Visit Log

We mogen deze mooie tb loggen. We hebben de collectie in Eindhoven kunnen bewonderen... :-)
Discovered It 9/26/2015 de van nassautjes discovered it   Visit Log

deze tb's gezien tijdens het GFC event bij een fanatieke verzamelaar
Discovered It 9/26/2015 H.P.M. discovered it   Visit Log

Deze coin of TB op het GeocoinFest in Eindhoven gezien.<br />
Wat een mooie verzameling.<br />
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Groet Sietse (aka HPM)<br />
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[b][blue]HPM[/b] is mede organisator van het [b]Hoorns Cache Event[/b].<br />
Op [b]5 maart 2016[/b] organiseren wij een[/blue] [b][red]MEGA[/b][/red] [blue]geocache event.<br />
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Voor meer informatie kijk op:<br />
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[b]Twitter :[/b] @HCE_members<br />
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Discovered It 9/26/2015 MoJo-13 discovered it   Visit Log

We wisten niet wat ons te wachten stond tijdens deze Mega Geocoinfest in Eindhoven, het is tenslotte ons eerste Mega event. Maar dat het zo druk zou zijn en dat we zoveel coins/tbs hebben kunnen bewonderen dat is ongelofelijk. Met name de vitrines op de bovenste etage wat een collectie. Daar kun je uren naar kijken, de 1e is nog mooier dan de andere. Wat super fijn dat we deze kunnen discoveren.
Bedankt hiervoor! 😉

Groet Team MoJo-13
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Bearl88 discovered it   Visit Log

Auf dem Geocoinfest Europe 2015 in Eindhoven hat der Owner seine tolle Sammlung von sehr schönen Geocoins ausgestellt. Es hat schon eine Weile gedauert, bis ich alle durchgeschaut hatte. Eine dieser schönen Coins war diese hier.

Vielen Dank für's Zeigen!

Bearl88
Discovered It 9/26/2015 LupoHexe discovered it   Visit Log

Beim Geocoinfest im Schaukasten gesehen.

Danke für das Zeigen
Discovered It 9/26/2015 LupoHexe discovered it   Visit Log

Beim Geocoinfest im Schaukasten gesehen.

Danke für das Zeigen
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Lilah&Lackó discovered it   Visit Log

What should we write? This was our first Mega event and we enjoyed every minutes of it.
We had a great, sunny day in Eindhoven.
We discovered at Geocoinfest Europe 2015.
Thank your for sharing.

Greetings from Hungary
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Jemilu discovered it   Visit Log

Bedankt Geo Dragonchild voor de mooie tb's te mogen loggen die we gezien hebben op het Geocoinfest in Eindhoven.
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