The Fallen Heroes Geocoin was minted as a tribute to the 2,974 people that died during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airline flights bound for San Francisco and Los Angeles from Boston, Newark, and Washington DC. In a coordinated suicide attack, they flew the aircraft into chose ground targets.
At 8:46am American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:03 am, United Airlines Flight 175 was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
At 9:37 am, American Airlines Flight 77 was flown into the Pentagon building in Washington DC.
Hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 was being flown by hijackers to the United States Capital Building in Washington D.C., The passengers, figuring out what was happening, attempted to take control of the cockpit from the hijacker. The highjackers intentionally crashed the aircraft into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Altogether, including aircraft passengers, rescue personnel and military personnel, 2,974 people died that day.
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Grossherzogtum Baden 2008 Geocoins
The Grossherzogtum Baden 2008 Geocoin is 1.75″ (44mm)in diameter and 4mm thick. This coin was released with antique silver, antique bronze and gold/nickel finishes. It’s trackable at Geocaching.com and has a custom icon.
One side of the coin shows two griffins that hold a “Baden” shield (Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine River in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg (state) of Germany.). On the other side of the coin is the town of “Karlsruhe”, the castle and a pyramid, together with diagonal stripes that symbolize sun rays in honor of the second name of this town,” Fan-City” or “Sun-City”.
Tethys C Trilobite Geocoin
This unique geocoin was designed and minted for Tethys C in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of the Burgess Shale Formation by Charles Walcott. The trilobite geocoin is in the shape of a trilobite fossil still partially embedded in it’s rock matrix, with a map showing the Burgess Shale Formation on the opposite side.
The Burgess Shale Formation is one of the worlds most popular and fascinating fossil records made famous for the exceptional preservation of soft bodied animals. This exceptional Pre-Cambrian fossil record was discovered by Charles Walcott in 1909. Between 1909 and 1924, Walcott returned to ridge with his sons, establishing a quarry, and collected over 65,000 specimens.
The Burgess Shale Formation was named after Mount Burgess (elevation 2,599 m), a mountain in Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies.
Coin Stats: 60mm diameter, 5.0mm thick with antique Silver plating, Glitter and IHE paint on map side. This geocoin is trackable with a custom trilobite icon on geocaching.com.
Click here to visit the trilobite geocoins owner/creators webpage
The First Geocoin – Moun10Bike Geocoin
The first geocoin, and the term “geocoin” itself, were first conceived and created by Jon Stanley, also known as Moun10Bike on the Geocaching.com forums.
The Moun10Bike 1 geocoin, is the rarest and most highly sought-after geocoin in existence. Occasionally, one of the original Moun10Bike geocoins makes it’s way to eBay, and typically brings in prices of $1000+. The creator of this geocoin, Jon Stanley, is adamantly against the sale of his or any other activated geocoin on eBay, unless the original owner/creator has given consent. If he finds one of his Moun10Bike geocoins for sale on eBay, he has it deactivated on Geocaching.com so that it can no longer be tracked.
On April 17, 2006, he posted this statement on the Groundspeak forums concerning the sale of this geocoin on eBay:
I wish all of the bidders in this auction well. However,
I feel that I must warn you that you will be bidding on a
“dead” coin – no tracking and no icon. I am having any of
my geocoins that are sold on eBay or elsewhere locked by Groundspeak.
I think it is pretty clear from my wording on the coin descriptions
as well as elsewhere in the forums that I do not approve of the sale
of my or any other activated coins (unless such sales are blessed by
the coin owner). Oh, and if there is any question as to who is the
owner of one of my coins, please see the name next to the “Owner:”
heading near the top of the coin page.
Thank you.
Click here to read the original post on the Groundspeak forum
The first geocoin, released on September 30, 2001, at Light House Point in Deception Pass State Park, Washington state, was #002. This cache, GC126C, has since been archived, but the original cache description page is still available in the Geocaching.com archives: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=4716
The original tracking page, on Geocaching.com, can still be found here:
Moun10Bike Geocoin #002
Owner: Moun10Bike
Released: Thursday, September 20, 2001
Origin: Washington, United States
Visit Jon Stanley’s website and read the history and creative process behind the first geocoin:
J.R.R. Tolkien once said that “not all who wander are lost.” What better philosophy for a geocacher? For us, the beauty is in the hunt, the search, the “wandering.” The true prize is what you find along the way to the cache. Sometimes the journey is the destination.
Tolkien was an established polyglot and even created his own organized spoken and written languages to embellish the fantastical worlds he created. One of such languages is Tengwar, the writing on one of this coin’s sides. It is a direct translation of the flip side. It is simply a reminder that no matter how you look at anything, whether you understand it or not, “there is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” –Tolkien
1.75″ diameter. Currently no custom tracking icon, but the owner may create one depending on the popularity of this coin.
This coin is made with a multi-leveling technique and is available in a variety of finishes and color options.
The coin was designed by the geocacher Scavok. He is also the creator of his own handmade geocoins which you can view at scavok.com.
Other color variations of ths geocoin:
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Excalibur was the legendary sword pulled from the stone by Arthur. The legend indicates that Arthur pulled the sword from the stone confirming his rightful place as King of England. The mythological sword was gifted with magical powers when held by the rightful King of England.
The name “Excalibur” was derived from the Latin phrase Ex calce liberatus, which translated to: “liberated from the stone.” The Greeks also had a similar translation: Ex-Kylie-Pyr or “out of a cup—fire”. Both phrases are inscribed on the front of this geocoin.
On the back of the Excalibur geocoin is a Coat of Arms similar to what may have been worn by King Arthur.
Around the edge of the geocoin are the names of the original 11 Knights of the Round Table: Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad, Sir Gawaine, Sir Gareth, Sir Bors, Sir Percivale, Sir Tristan, Sir Bedivere, Sir Lamorak, Sir Kay and Sir Geraint. Also on the coin is the year 1300 – the year that Arthur began his reign as King of England.
Excalibur geocoin, 1.75 inches (app. 44 mm) diameter, and 3 mm thick. This geocoin is trackable with a unique custom icon.
The Knights Templar geocoin is probably one of the most popular geocoins on the market today. This geocoin was created in, and imported from Germany. They come in Antique Silver, Antique Gold and Antique Copper.
The Knights Templar geocoin was designed by Mambomania, is 1.75 inches (about 44 mm) in diameter and 3 mm thick, with a three dimensional design on both the front and back.
Click here to find Knights Templar geocoins in the GeocoinVault store.
The Nostradamus geocoin was released in April 2009 as a special edition Geocoin Club coin.
The front of the coin features a three dimensional star chart created by Nostradamus, and the back contains a three dimensional likeness of Nostradamus.
Dimensions: 1.75 inches diameter x 3.5 mm thick.
This special edition coin is trackable at Geocaching.com and includes a custom tracking icon.
Click here to see all Geocoin Club coins currently available at GeocoinVault.com
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the All-Supreme deity of the make-believe religion, “The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster”. The religion was spontaneously brought into existence in 2005 by Bobby Henderson as a humorous protest to the Kansas State Board of Education’s plan to require teachers to also present Intelligent Design as an alternative to evolution. The Intelligent Design supporters constantly used ambiguous references to an unspecified “Intelligent Designer” to attempt to bypass court rulings prohibiting the teaching of Creation in classrooms as a viable and supportable scientific theory. This ambiguous definition of the “Intelligent Designer” opened up the possibility that any imaginable thing (person, deity, object, mythological creature) could fill the role.
In an open letter to the pinheads at the Kansas State Board of Education, Henderson presents his concept of intelligent design by declaring belief in a supernatural creator that closely resembles a flying plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Hence the creation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. He labels his theory as the “Pastafarian theory of creation”, and demanded that it be taught in Kansas classrooms along side Intelligent Design.
The humorous nature of Henderson’s argument made the Flying Spaghetti Monster a instant cult sensation and became immensely popular with bloggers as well as humor and Internet culture websites.
In August 2005, the Swedish concept designer Niklas Jansson created, an adaptation of Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam (superimposing the Flying Spaghetti Monster over God) which became and remains today the FSM’s de facto brand image. He declared his image “pretty much free to use for press and such as far as I’m concerned”.
Flying Spaghetti Monster Geocoin
The Flying Spaghetti Monster trackable geocoin is the personal coin of the “often-imitated, but never duplicated” leader of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. FSM splits his time between being a moderator in the Geocaching.com Geocoin Forums and tirelessly trying to educate the world on the inverse relationship between the average global temperature and the alarming decrease in the number of pirates left in the world.
Flying Spaghetti Monster Geocoin was released in July 2007 at CoinsAndPins.com, but quickly sold out.
The Brahean Geocoin is the first truly double-spinning geocoin. It was designed based on Cellarius’s representation of Tycho Brahe’s world system. The zodiac signs on the inner ring represent planets revolving around the Earth.
There was approximately a total of 550 regular editions produced in antique silver and antique bronze. There were 35 2-tone black nickel-antique bronze artist’s editions and 40 3-tone antique silver-gold-copper limited editions produced. The AE and LE coins were never publicly sold, are only available from the designer, and will never be reminted.
The AE and LE coins are consecutively numbered on their edge. The coins included in this auction are #18 which is a lucky number in Judaism.
The coin is trackable at www.geocaching.com with a unique icon:
To celebrate the release of their new Earthmate PN-40 GPS, DeLorme commissioned the design of a limited edition geocoin.
The Eartha geocoin was designed by Chris Mackey. It is 2 inches in diameter, 16 mm thick and has a three dimensional spinning center.
Only 250 of these coins were released by DeLorme, and will not be offered for sale. From the Geocaching.com website: Ownership of all Eartha Geocoins is retained by Team DeLorme.
DeLorme is currently sponsoring a drawing for an Earthmate PN-40, as the Grand Prize. First prize is one of the limited edition Eartha Geocoins.
http://www.delorme.com/geocaching/enter/default.htm (as of the date of this article, the drawing appears to be ongoing)
The Eartha Geocoin represents Eartha, the world’s largest rotating and revolving globe, located at DeLorme headquarters in Yarmouth, Maine, USA. http://www.delorme.com/about/eartha.aspx
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