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 richlay discovered it   Visit Log

These were made available for discovery at the superb GeoCoinFest in Eindhoven. We had a wonderful day and have added it into our plan for next year's possible ventures as we prepare to bring the UK Mega to Yorkshire in 2018 :)
Discovered It 9/26/2015 IrisBumo discovered it   Visit Log

Voor het eerst op een Geocoinfest geweest en een leuke dag gehad. Snel langs een aantal kraampjes gelopen en daarna caches gezocht in de omgeving.

Ook mocht ik deze mooie verzameling discoveren. Geo-Dragonchild bedankt voor de trackingcodes.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Dremel68 discovered it   Visit Log

Während des Mega-Events in Eindhoven bot sich die Möglichkeit, reichlich Bekanntschaft mit TB's + Geocoins zu machen 😁

Herzlichen Dank an "Geo-Dragonchild" für den Einblick in die schöne Sammlung und den freundlichen E-Mail Kontakt :-)
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Sonnet.B discovered it   Visit Log

Op het Geocoinfest in Eindhoven, wilde ik echt bij zijn. Met Emxj hiernaar toe gegaan. Hier veel kraampjes gezien waar geocoins en trackables te koop waren. Maar op de bovenverdieping waren een aantal vitrines met verzamelingen te bewonderen 🙂. Waaronder deze bijzonder mooie van jou, Geo-Dragonchild.

Bedankt deze te mogen bewonderen in het echt en daadwerkelijk te kunnen discoveren omdat ik de tracking-codes persoonlijk van jou heb ontvangen 👍.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Hi-Bye discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered during the GeocoinFest Europe 2015 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Thanks for showing this beautiful collection.

~ Cache groet van Hi-Bye ~
Discovered It 9/26/2015 MimiNemo discovered it   Visit Log

Heute diese tollen Coins beim Geocoinfest in Eindhoven discovern dürfen 😎

Danke dafür 😁
Discovered It 9/26/2015 MimiNemo discovered it   Visit Log

Heute diese tollen Coins beim Geocoinfest in Eindhoven discovern dürfen 😎

Danke dafür 😁
Discovered It 9/26/2015 dev46 discovered it   Visit Log

Während unseres Aufenthaltes auf dem Mega-Event in Eindhoven hatten wir das Vergnügen, auch diesen Reisenden zu bewundern 😁
Vielen Dank fürs Ausstellen und das Discovern lassen,
Dev46
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Niekie28 discovered it   Visit Log

Voor het eerst op een Geocoinfest geweest en kan niet anders zeggen dat het een leuke dag was begonnen met cache zoeken in de omgeving toen werd het tijd om het event te bezoeken gezellig staan kletsen met bekende daarna kon ik behoorlijk veel tb`s discoveren waar deze ook onder viel ik wil je ook bedanken dat je je verzameling wilde tonen geogroetjes van Niekie
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Karmansbo discovered it   Visit Log

Thank you for letting me see your lovely TB collection on the "Geocoinfest Europe 2015 Netherlands" 😁

Anna "Karmansbo" Sweden
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