AWES Virginia Geocoin
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Owner:
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Aloha! & Wahine Eye Spy
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Released:
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Friday, October 20, 2006
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Origin:
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Virginia, United States
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is to visit the United Kingdom before returning to the US to visit the remaining 49 states.
Note: Please do not keep or hold onto this coin. It is not a keepsake or souvenir. Please move it along as quickly as possible so another cacher might also enjoy it. Thank you.
Sic semper tyrannis is a Latin phrase meaning "Thus always to tyrants" or "Thus ever be to tyrants". It is the state motto of Virginia in the U.S. (and also that of the USS Virginia). The Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia shows Virtue, sword in hand, with her foot on the prostrate form of Tyranny, whose crown lies nearby. The Seal was designed by George Wythe, who signed the Declaration of Independence and taught Law to Thomas Jefferson.
Recommended by George Mason to the Virginia Convention in 1776, the phrase is attributed to Brutus at the assassination of Julius Caesar. According to some witnesses and an excerpt from John Wilkes Booth's diary, he shouted it after shooting United States President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. In his mug shot following the Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh wore a shirt with a picture of Lincoln on it and "Sic Semper Tyrannis" written below.
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