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 chiefryback discovered it   Visit Log

Beim Geocoin-Festival in Eindhoven gab es viel zu sehen und wir haben viele nette Cacher getroffen
Ein Highlight waren natürlich auch die TB und Coins die hier ausgestellt wurden, darunter die sehr schöne Sammlung "Dutch Geocoin Ausstellung" die wir hiermit discovern dürfen, vielen Dank
Discovered It 9/26/2015 10 Cachingpaws discovered it   Visit Log

Beim Geocoin-Festival in Eindhoven gab es viel zu entdecken
Fehlen dürfen hier natürlich nicht die TB und Coins
Eine sehr schöne Sammlung ist die Dutch Geocoin Ausstellung die wir hiermit discovern dürfen, vielen Dank dafür
Discovered It 9/26/2015 aubar discovered it   Visit Log

I saw this great collection at the Geocoinfest in Eindhoven. Took a picture of myself with the collection and have sent the image to the owner of this collection. I reallly admired the collection. Thanks a lot for sharing it!
Discovered It 9/26/2015 aubar discovered it   Visit Log

Bedankt Geo Dragonchild voor de mooie tb's te mogen loggen die we gezien hebben op het Geocoinfest in Eindhoven.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Canoy discovered it   Visit Log

Tijdens een bezoek aan het geocoinfest 2015 in Eindhoven deze coin gezien in de Dutch Geocoin Collectie. Het is een prachtige collectie met veel mooie en unieke geocoins. Bedankt voor het laten bezichtigen/discoveren van deze coins.
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Klaye discovered it   Visit Log

I had the chance to see the Geo-Dragonchild's collection at the 2015 Geocoinfest in Eindhoven. And since he kindly sent me the tracking codes, I am even able to log them as "discovered". It was my first geocoinfest, and even though the geocoins form part of every event, the amount of geocoins at the geocoinfest was immense. There was no way to see them all, so I just strolled along the stands and looked here and there what might be interesting. Besides the coins, I also liked the sunny weather, the lab caches around and the overall atmosphere. What amused me a little bit was the beer, since it was really small (I think 0,2l).
Thanks for sharing the collection with the geocaching community & happy geocaching!
Discovered It 9/26/2015 LordT discovered it   Visit Log

De mooie Nederlandse Coin Collectie van Geo-Dragonchild kunnen bewonderen tijdens het Geocoinfest te Eindhoven.
Bedankt voor het delen!
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Team Serfaus discovered it   Visit Log

Diese tolle Sammlung von Geo-Dragonchild durften wir als Dutch Geocoin Ausstellung auf dem Geocoinfest 2015 in Eindhoven bewundern. Vielen Dank fürs Zeigen und die Logfreigabe und ganz viel Spaß noch beim Sammeln und Suchen sagt das Team Serfaus aus Köln!
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Thoto discovered it   Visit Log

One of the many great trackables I have seen at the Geocoinfestival in Eindhoven 🙂. Thanks 😁
Discovered It 9/26/2015 Stretchy123 discovered it   Visit Log

Visited GeoCoinfest in Eindhoven and spotted these on display upstairs. An impressive collection.
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