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Barbakán Geocoin

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Owner:
Quingdao Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Origin:
Southern Scotland, United Kingdom
Recently Spotted:
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Current Goal

TO VISIT CHILD FRIENDLY CACHES AND ONE DAY RETURN TO HUNGARY

About This Item

Barbakán - Winter

Barbakán - Winter

This copin is the first personal geocoin from Hungary. The geocacher Strombus, who have created the coin, tell us this about it: 

"I have been dreaming of having my personal geocoin for years. But what should be on it? Finally during the Christmas break I came up with the design with the help of my children. We first tried it out on a pathtag (drawn by Márton24), and then we pulled our courage and resources together, came up with the picture for the back and with the wonderful help of Brittany Lagan from Coins and Pins we created the coin!

100 pieces were made, 60 of the Brown Winter version, 40 of the Mediterranean Winter version. The size is the regular 44.5 mm diameter, 3 mm thick. There is a little 3D design used, for example the rocks under the translucent die are not at the same level, but the surface is nice and smooth.

The theme: a 15th century fortified section of the city wall of Pécs, with my geocacher buddies, the then 4 and 2 year old Márton24 and Bojta. 
As I cannot draw well, the design started out with two photos. The one on the front I took many winters ago with the children on it. The backside is based on a picture we found on the internet. I used Photoshop to turn the photos into drawings and then Bojta drew the children there where they were missing on the back. So it is the back and forth view of the same structure and the same children. 

When I designed this coin I thought this would be my one and only, so I wanted to make sure it has every feature I like in a coin: it depicts my home town (where my family has been living and walking through these arches since the 17th century), and it shows my children. The coin is trackable and each has a serial number. The tracking code starts with HU, as in Hungary. And it has its own icon."

Tracking History (83988.8mi) View Map

Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Are You feeling Stratisfied? Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - 4.16 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path -1 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - 5.44 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path 35 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - .44 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path 38 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - 5.65 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path - 2 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - .13 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path - 3 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - .11 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path - 4 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - .19 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path - 5 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - .12 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path - 6 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - .18 miles  Visit Log
Visited 2/25/2024 Quingdao took it to Dunfermline to Alloa Cycle Path - 7 Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - .16 miles  Visit Log
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