I JUST BOUGHT FOUR NEW GEOCOINS AND THEY ARE AMAZING !!!
It all started when I found the Osiris coin in a cache called Beautiful Thrill. A very fitting name due to the fact I was very thrilled to have found such a beautiful coin out in the ‘wild’. From that point forward I was obsessed … I HAD to find out where I could buy this amazing coin. My search brought me to the online geocoin store, The Geocoin Store. I also found out the coin was one of four in set called The Lotus Compass created by Jackalgirl The coins in the set are called Nepthys, Aten, Osiris, and Set. I purchased the entire set and now they’ve been added to my geocoin collection. If you would like to discover them, just send me a message via my twitter account.
The story behind the coins goes as follows:
The inspiration for this coin comes from the glorious Middle and New Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt. Lotus buds and flowers (Nymphaea caerulea), symbols of creation & rebirth, are used to create a compass rose around the central disk of the sun. The directions are represented in four forms of text: hieroglyphs, Gardnerian transliteration, English, and an approximation of how the word might be pronounced (based on the study of both Middle Egyptian and its still-extant descendant, Coptic). South is at the top, as it was represented in Egyptian art (and, in fact, the Egyptian word for “south” also means “up”).
On the reverse, the classic representation of Aten (the sun disk, represented in the way made very famous by the artisans of the Amarna period) is, of course, geocaching, as any self-respecting sun deity with eons of time on its many, many hands would probably be doing. Aten has found an ammo can and is signing the log and — what’s that? A bug is escaping!
