Sextant Geocoin

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Owner:
johnny lightning Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Monday, October 1, 2012
Origin:
Antwerpen, Belgium
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

This is collectible.

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About This Item

LE

LE in Antique Silver & Polished Gold

The octant and sextant replaced most of the earlier navigation tools in the late 1700s such as the back staff, mariner's astrolabe, and quadrant. The octant is 1/8 of a circle and a sextant is 1/6 of a circle. The sextant allowed for more range in the degree scale over the octant.

The biggest improvement the sextant made over all other sighting tools (except the octant) is its double reflecting mirrors which eliminated the ocular parallax other tools caused. It also allowed for greater accuracy by having finer degree adjustments.

The sextant design is so universal and accurate that it is still used on ships today as a backup instrument to electrical navigation devices. Even aircraft used these as backups if their avionic systems failed.

The Sextant Geocoin™ is trackable on Geocaching.com and has its own icon. It was made in both antique silver and antique bronze with each finish having a second polished plating on the sextant. The antique bronze is the only finish open for public sales. There is also text going around the edge of the coin. A unique feature about this coin is the stars around the sextant glow in the dark.

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Discovered It 2/14/2018 JaMaDuLi discovered it   Visit Log

In verschiedenen Logbüchern, in Caches, auf Events, Online oder bei anderen Gelegenheiten gesehen. Vielen Dank fürs Zeigen!
Liebe Grüsse…
"JaMaDuLi"
Discovered It 12/15/2017 LordT discovered it   Visit Log

Gespot in JL's Treasure Chest. Indrukwekkende en mooie collectie!
Discovered It 11/11/2017 Du Mistvieh discovered it   Visit Log

Erst einmal schon Entschuldigung an die Owner für das späte Discovern.
Komme endlich mal dazu meine offenen Views zu loggen.
Viele wurden beim Ilmenauer Stammtisch gesehen, oder auf diversen anderen Events.
Ein Großteil jedoch draussen auf weiter Flur 🙂
Vielen Dank fürs Zeigen und die vielen verschiedenen damit verbundenen Eindrücken.

kipptz MV
Discovered It 10/31/2017 ipoded discovered it   Visit Log

I'm logging TB's and coins from the past 5 years from photos I took on Events, Megas & Gigas all around in Europe. This is one of them. THANK YOU!
Discovered It 10/10/2017 ae911 discovered it   Visit Log

Noch die ein oder andere TB Nummer gefunden
Danke fürs zeigen

Discovered It 10/10/2017 ae911 discovered it   Visit Log

Noch die ein oder andere TB Nummer gefunden
Danke fürs zeigen

Discovered It 9/17/2017 Pan314159 discovered it   Visit Log

The owner of these trackables was kind enough to share his collection with me at GCF Belgium.
Thank you very much!
🙂

Discovered It 8/31/2017 queenfr discovered it   Visit Log

Nachdem der Zugriff auf die Bilder des alten Handys nun doch wieder möglich ist...
...können wir diesem Reisenden allzeit gute Fahrt wünschen. Danke fürs Discovern.
Discovered It 8/30/2017 major.tom discovered it   Visit Log

beim cachen gesehen, danke fürs zeigen!
Discovered It 5/8/2017 ebatt discovered it   Visit Log

Vielen Dank fürs Zeigen.

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