Willem van Oranje Geocoin Willem van Oranje Geocoin (Antique Nickel/Polished Nickel) XLE 10

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Released:
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Origin:
Zeeland, Netherlands
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In the hands of the owner.

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The Willem van Oranje Geocoin was designed by Mr. Van Stoffelen Sr. The information about the coin shown below was taken from his website: "huiberst.info".

Willem van Oranje Geocoin

William of Orange (a.k.a. William the Silent) was born in the House of Nassau as a count of Nassau-Dillenburg. He became Prince of Orange in 1544 and is thereby the founder of the branch House of Orange-Nassau. He was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish that set off the Eighty Years’ War and resulted in the formal independence of the United Provinces in 1648. In the Netherlands, he is also known as the Vader des Vaderlands, “Father of the Fatherland”, and the Dutch national anthem, Het Wilhelmus was written in his honor.

Design

The geocoin is round shaped and has a size of 1.75″ (approx. 44 mm). The front of this coin is a copy of the first Dutch coin which was minted in 1583. It shows the portrait of William of Orange and the motto Vigilate Deo Confidentes, which means ‘Guard, trusting in God’.

The backside of this coin has one of William most important statements written on it: “Ik kan niet goedkeuren dat vorsten over het geweten van hun onderdanen willen heersen en hun de vrijheid van geloof ontnemen” which translated means “I cannot approve that monarchs want to rule over the conscience of their people and take away their freedom of religion”.

Final Artwork of the Willem van Oranje Geocoinfinal artwork

Finishings:

It totally 14 different finishings of the Willem van Oranje Geocoin were minted:

  • Polished Gold
  • Polished Silver
  • Antique Gold
  • Antique Silver
  • Polished Gold/Polished Silver
  • Antique Copper   XLE (15 made)
  • Foggy Silver/Polished Silver   XLE (15 made)
  • Foggy Gold/Polished Gold   XLE (15 made)
  • Antique Silver/Antique Gold   XLE (15 made)
  • Antique Nickel/Polished Nickel   XLE (10 made)
  • Antique Gold/Polished Gold   XLE (10 made)
  • Antique Bronze/Polished Bronze   XLE (10 made)
  • Antique Nickel/Antique Bronze   XLE (10 made)
  • Antique Nickel/Antique Copper   XLE (10 made)

About This Item

Willem van Oranje Geocoin (Antique Nickel/Polished Nickel) - extra limited edition, only 10 coins minted

Willem van Oranje Geocoin - frontWillem van Oranje Geocoin - back

The Willem van Oranje Geocoin is one of the coins I have retrieved out of the stunning coin collection of Pastor_B! I really appreciate the opportunity to get a part of his stunning dutch geocoin collection

The aim of this geocoin is to please everyone who looks at this beautiful geocoin and discovers it 

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Discovered It 4/22/2020 copohontas discovered it   Visit Log

Last summer we watched my geocoin collection and now I had an good opportunity to see yours. Thanks, Geo-Dragonchild.
Discovered It 3/31/2020 barbatante discovered it   Visit Log

So many beautiful coins, started to log them one by one but this collection is so impressive that I will watch them one by one but log them all at once from here...

Met you on my Friday the 13th event (is there a coin for that? ;-), considering there is one for many special dates there will be one for sure somewhere) in Vlissingen the Netherlands...

Long after the event was over we were still there together with Marsso talking about many stuff among which the Corona Virus but also our hobby Geocaching and then you offered to share your coin collection with us..

So honoured that you would show it to us, love to watch them all, some of them never seen before and others that look familiar...

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy and hope to see you again somwhere someday after this Corona Crisis..

Bye for now..
Barbara team barbatante
Move To Collection 3/25/2018 Geo-Dragonchild moved it to their collection   Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 3/14/2018 Geo-Dragonchild grabbed it   Visit Log

The coin was accidentally activated by kyblikzkfc 😮 The coin was a present from the coin designer Team van Stoffelen to Pastor_B, who had this coin for many years in his personal collection, before he gave the coin later to me 🙂 As I added the coin to my data base, I discovered that the coin was already activated. I contacted kyblikzkfc to get the info, that he activated the coin by mistake. But I got the adoption request for the coin, so I am able to put in my personal coin collection 👍
Thank you very much for your cooperation 😎
Geo-Dragonchild 🙂
Write note 3/14/2018 Geo-Dragonchild posted a note for it   Visit Log

Geocoin Viléma Oranžského was transferred from kyblikzkfc to user Geo-Dragonchild
Write note 3/7/2018 pastor_b posted a note for it   Visit Log

Please send an adoption request for this coin as I have had it in my possession until recently and sold it to Geo-Dragonchild. It is now in his possession and he desires you to adopt it to him.

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