Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin Cidinho & Lia GC #140 - Petrified Wood Compass Geocoin

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Owner:
Cidinho & Lia Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Origin:
Arquipélago da Madeira, Portugal
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

This is collectible.

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Current Goal

To Travel with the owners. mostly in events.

About This Item

This coin portrays a slice of petrified wood, on which on one side a compass had been added a long time ago. This compass is now starting to weather away showing again the underlying features of the beautifully colored silicified wood, with the embedded colored minerals, which replaced the original wood during a slow process over many millions of years. During a process called Permineralization all pores within the wood were replaced by minerals and elements. A coin inspired by OshnDoc's first profession and ultimate hobby – Geology.

The coin design is based on a picture of a petrified log he had taken many years ago in the Petrified Forest National Park (Holbrook, AZ), while driving across the US to deliver research equipment to Port Hueneme for shipment to Antarctica. A mixture of hard and soft translucent enamel on top of a textured background, as well as bare metal surfaces, is giving this coin a multi-level effect, with a lot of surface facets catching the light, trying to mimic the natural beauty of petrified wood.

This is a joint project coin by OshnDoc and Go JayBee. You can view their profiles by clicking on their names.

  • Trackable on Geocaching.com.
  • 2" diameter
  • Translucent imitation hard and soft enamel colors
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Discovered It 4/1/2024 Salecy discovered it   Visit Log

Un immense merci pour m'avoir fait découvrir cette magnifique collection
Discovered It 8/26/2023 NorthFarm discovered it   Visit Log

Seen at an event by "old-and-grey" in Funchal, Madeira. Thanks for sharing.
Discovered It 2/27/2023 neiaeadry discovered it   Visit Log

Obrigado pela partilha

Visto no Evento na ilha da madeira
Discovered It 2/7/2023 MarmottaMurmeltier discovered it   Visit Log

Thanks
Discovered It 10/16/2022 die Bahnfahrer discovered it   Visit Log

Greetings from Germany
Discovered It 11/24/2021 little-leggs discovered it   Visit Log

a BIG thanks to
Cidinho & Lia
for sharing this one with Me here in sunny

Somerset

😁

little-leggs

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All ways on the look out for more TB's to DISCOVER
Discovered It 8/22/2021 FTav discovered it   Visit Log

Obrigado pela partilha da tua magnifica coleção.
Discovered It 2/14/2021 Sawi52 discovered it   Visit Log

Thank you for sharing.
Greetings
Stay safe!
Discovered It 2/13/2021 Flò discovered it   Visit Log

Discovered during our quarantine due to the corona virus, thanks a lot to the owner for sharing his beautiful collection with us, we wish him a 2021 full of geocaching and excellent health.
Claudia and Daniele, Castelfranco Veneto - Italy
Discovered it. Thank you for sharing.
Discovered It 11/12/2020 neiaeadry discovered it   Visit Log

Obrigado pela partilha desta magnífica coleção
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