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Talk Like a Pirate Geocoin Arrrggh Matey Geocoin

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Owner:
Giazilla Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Origin:
California, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

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Current Goal

Please place only in premium member caches.  This coin's mission is to travel the world so my little matey can watch it travel to places she might like to go when she grows up.  She'll have fun looking up the places her Pirate geocoin gets to visit.  Please do take a photo of the view you have from the cache site (not the actual cache location...no spoilers) so we can see the world through your eyes.  We'll be watching for those in the logs of the caches you visit or drop into.  Thank you, and happy caching!

About This Item

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The Talk Like A Pirate Geocoin

What it means:

The pirate skull side... 

The skull with mouth open of course is the pirate talking, but the patch on the right eye is courtesy of "One-eyed Willie" from the Goonies movie.
The symbol on the patch is the crucifix found stamped on dozens of different "doubloon" coins during the reign of the pirate age.
In latin on the left from bottom to top is "Talk Like (a) Pirate" and on the right is 9/19/2013 for this year.
1995 is the infamous year upon which the holiday began after an injury during a raquetball game.
The Spear/Hourglass/Heart symbols were used by a bunch of the most notorious pirates in history and each had various meanings. Most commonly the spear was a symbol of imminent attack, the hourglass was a warning to enemy ships to not try to stall for time, and the heart was a symbol of warning that no quarter would be given and all put to death if surrender was not complete and immediate.
The S.-B. within the speaking pirate skull is a tribute to Summers and Baur who began to promote the idea for a holiday.
The odd raised elipses on the edge of the coin were a common design element in all the coins regardless of origin in that particular era.


The Crest side... 

Cache on crown - Cache is King
The pillars are the infamous Pillars of Hercules depicted on coinage of the era representing the old world and the new.
Plus Vltra - latin inscription for Further Beyond and denoted new discoveries in a newly discovered hemisphere of the world.
The floating crown was a symbol of oversight of the new colonies from the government back home.
The 8 and R on the pillars indicates 8 Reales and what led to the coins being called "Pieces of Eight" where coins would be commonly cut into 8 equal pieces like a pizza during trades.
Signal and Yelling man are self explanatory :)
Spreading laurel in the background is symbol of victory and growth in the new world.
The fleur de lis (lilly flower) was a common european symbol of royalty.
The Latin on left - "Explore the World" and "Share the Experience" from the Groundspeak homepage.
The S at the bottom is commonly the City of Origin for the coin and this case would be Seattle.
The Dahlia is the official symbol of Seattle, The City of Flowers.
The shield center crest is the GPS signal lightning bolts (normally the three crosses of the holy trinity on a doubloon).

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Tracking History (4164.7mi) View Map

Visited 8/12/2021 Giazilla took it to Lutrapata's legacy Idaho - 759.05 miles  Visit Log
Visited 12/31/2019 Giazilla took it to Treasure Valley New Year's Eve Meet & Greet Idaho - 7.23 miles  Visit Log

At Railroad’s end of year event.

Discovered It 7/27/2019 ReneeCache discovered it   Visit Log

While visiting you in your Idaho home

Visited 7/27/2019 Giazilla took it to G-man's Groovy Hotel Cache Idaho - 15.73 miles  Visit Log

Caching Boise with ReneeCache.

Visited 7/27/2019 Giazilla took it to Protect the Code Idaho - 10.54 miles  Visit Log

Out by Lucky Peak.

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Visited 7/23/2019 Giazilla took it to Vans: Westward Ho! Meet and Greet Idaho - 759.14 miles  Visit Log

A morning event in Boise.

Visited 2/9/2018 Giazilla took it to 4:10 To Hwy 78 California - 126.92 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/24/2017 Giazilla retrieved it from Week 54 in Chula Vista (December 23rd, 2015) California   Visit Log

Took me awhile to log this.

Discovered It 12/24/2015 PQCaching discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at Event Cache Week 54 in Chula Vista (December 23rd, 2015)

Discovered It 12/23/2015 kibble2 discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered at Trixxster's Week 54 event.

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