Aon Adhairc Unicorn - Purple

Aon Adhairc is Gaelic for Unicorn (literal translation is One Horn). This Geocoin would like to travel to the Orkney Islands. 

Sorry it's just a copy. Too many idiots stealing coins these days to risk putting out the real one. No need to visit the unicorn into every cache you find, it just makes the map hard to read and load. 

In heraldry the unicorn is best known as the symbol of Scotland. The unicorn was chosen because it was seen as a proud and haughty beast which would rather die than be captured, just as Scots would fight to remain sovereign and unconquered. Two unicorns supported the royal arms of the King of Scots, and since the 1707 union of England and Scotland, the royal arms of the United Kingdom have been supported by a unicorn along with an English lion. Two versions of the royal arms exist: that used in Scotland gives more emphasis to the Scottish elements, placing the unicorn on the left and giving it a crown, whereas the version used in England and elsewhere gives the English elements more prominence.

A laminated copy of the original Geocoin. It's attached to a gold homemade travel tag and a pink sequinned unicorn (which you can buy cheaply on Amazon should you desire to have your own).

This stunning coin comes in six versions. Each version is finished in hard enamels and has the same reverse showing the Scottish Saltire. The fronts are all a 3D design set under deep translucent hard enamel. 

This is the X.L.E version - 55 made, Shiny Nickel, Purple with Black Glitter mane.

Status Update

June 2023             2838.8km    Beeding, West Sussex, England