Dragon Ladon Geocoin

Dragon_Ladon_575 The Dragon Ladon Geocoin is a two-toned, nickel plated, pewter-based geocoin. The dragon is Antique Gold plated with translucent imitation hard enamel coloring. The initial minting was 200 geocoins

The unique feature of this geocoin is the three dimensional dragon that wraps wound the entire coin.

This geocoin was designed by Theotokos and is trackable on Geocaching.com

From the Geocaching.com website forums:

Theotokos

Kamloops British Columbia

Well, I wasn’t sure I wanted to post this with so many wonderful new coins coming out…but I just couldn’t resist as I’m too impatient. The sample pictures aren’t very good and I wish I could take better photos but I just can’t. We still have some work to do but hopefully we can get it all worked out soon. These started out as a new personal coin but in the end I decided to go the other route and not have our name on it. We’ll work on a personal coin another time.

So, how did this all come about? Well, our Surname means dragon
German: from Middle High German trache, drache ‘dragon’, hence probably a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a dragon, or a nickname for someone with a fierce or fiery temperament. – (They hit that on the head)

Anyway, maybe that’s why I’ve always been fascinated by the myth surrounding my favorite constellation – Draco. Draco is a constellation that winds around the little dipper and is its brightest in the month of August – the month of my birth as well – coincidence? I think not cool.gif. You can see this constellation everyday just like Andromeda. Dragons often played a role in myths and legends. In these stories the gods would often battle the dragons for control of the Earth. When defeated, the dragons were flung up into the skies.

The most famous myth calls this Dragon Ladon. Ladon was a dragon that guarded the golden apples on a tree in a garden tended by the Hesperides, the daughters of Atlas. Hercules was sent to obtain the apples while under pledge to Eurystheus. He learned from Nereus that he could not pluck the apples himself, but must get help from Atlas. Hercules shot and killed Ladon with an arrow, making way for Atlas to enter and pluck the golden apples. The goddess Hera was greatly distressed by the death of Ladon and placed the dragon in the heavens. This coin represents Draco in the heavens always visible over all the Earth.

Again, it seemed very fitting as a personal coin design and yet I thought it might be even better without our tag on it. So that’s it and I hope you like them.

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