avroair Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Ok so I did this a while back and I given my penchent for making historical (loosely) themed coins: Ancient Celtic, King Tut, Robin Hood, Musketeer, Medusa, Roman Leggionnaire etc. I would like to try this again. Cointest Instructions and rules: 1. You are to create a Timeline of Man using geocoins... for instance starting with Stonehenge design etc. 2. The timeline has to be at least 10 entries long and each entry must include a brief caption and picture of a coin. (www.geocoincollection.com has lots of pics). 3. The timeline will run exactly 4 cycles of the moon 4. Upon completion of the time period, people can vote their favorite top 3 for another moon cycle 5. Use your imagination! Winner gets 3 coins of their choice from the list of my designs above. Runner up gets 2 coins of their choice and third runner up gets 1 coin of my choosing. Example: 1. stonehenge benchmark - built a long time ago 2. mystery pyramid coin - built sometime 2600 bc 3. parisi - French tribe settled in 400 bc 4. wales 2006 castle - built in 1200s 5. da vinci challenge series - rennaisance europe You get the idea... I didn't show photos but you have to... Link to comment
gillianms Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I am seriously excited about this cointest. I love history AND I love geocoin research! In the course of my procrastination ...uh, participation... I am likely to do a few of these timelines. While I only expect to be entered into the cointest once, can I post the rest or should I only post one? Link to comment
+gardengorilla Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Are these coins we own or just coins in general? Link to comment
+forthferalz Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 last time it was just coins in general trackable or not and the timeline was not necessarily ummm acccurate? http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=175655 Link to comment
+forthferalz Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 (edited) 1. day 6 2. hunter gatherer the stone age 3. built in the time of Pericles 447 BC 4. protect your noggin AD 790 - 1066 5. hunter looter in the time of King Richard the Lionheart AD 1157 – 1199 6. Cologne Cathedral built 1248 - 1880 (> 600 years to completion) 2007 the 'pixel window' added 7. Australia invaded/founded Jan 26 1788 8. protect your noggin - origin 1850's 9. hunter gatherer 1980 10. January 20, 2009 "Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges." Edited January 22, 2010 by forthferalz Link to comment
+ECplus3 Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 25,000 - 10,000 BC Coa Valley Geocoin Cave art in Northern Portugal 2555 BC Sphinx Mystery Cache Geocoin The Great Sphinx of Giza 1184 BC Odyssey Voyager Geocoin Greek helmet in the shape of the Trojan Horse 447 BC Athens Geocoin The Parthenon 70 AD Rome 2006 Coliseum Geocoin The Coliseum 700 AD Naymlap Geocoin Pre-Incan King 1152 AD Nidaros Cathedral Geocoin Started in 1070 and completed in 1300, the most significant cathedral in Norway. 1539 AD Compass Rose 2008 Geocoin Depicts Magellan's ship Victoria in which he circumnavigated the globe 1969 AD 40 Years Man on the Moon Geocoin Comemorates Man's journey to the moon 2000 AD I Love Geocaching Geocoin Celebrates Man's greatest hobby! Link to comment
+Mar-elendili Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 Let's try a mostly nordic one! Rock engravings in Alta (Norway Geocoin 2007) : roughly -4000 Sun chariot bronze statue craften in the late Nordic Bronze age (Solvognen geocoin) : roughly -1400 Celtic coin minted in Camulodunum, UK (Camulodunum Geocoin) : roughly 0 Yeah, I know, not really nordic per se. Sorry. Golden horns found in a field in Denmark (Golden Horns Geocoin) : roughly 450 Viking runestone (Viking Runestone Geocoin) : roughly 800 Nidaros Cathedral (Norwegian Attractions : Nidaros Cathedral Geocoin) : started in 1070 Nordkapp is sailed by by R. Chancellor while searching for the New World (Norwegian Attractions : Nordkapp Geocoin) : 1553 Dala horse is Sweden's national toy (Dala Horse Geocoin) : 1716 Edvard Munch paints The Scream (Ancient Cultures : The Scream Geocoin) : 1893 The Little Mermaid statue is unveiled (Danish Skal 2006 Geocoin) : 1913 Thanks for the fun cointest! Link to comment
+gardengorilla Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Okay, here's my entry...thanks for the fun cointest! TethysC Trilobite Cambrian Age ~542MYA to ~488 MYA TethysC Ammonite Mesozoic Era ~251 MYA to ~ 65MYA I Bashed at Midwest – Miocene ~10MYA to ~5MYA Invention of the wheel, Makin' Tracks ~3500 B.C. Complex Society/Buildings 2551 B.C. Age of Christ Harnessing of Electricity 18th C Man on the Moon 1969 Selective Availability Geocoins of the future? Link to comment
+drneal Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 How about the timeline of a man? Love Marriage Life begins Childhood Teenager Graduation Work Boys will Be Boys! Love continued next post Link to comment
+drneal Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 Marriage Family Midlife Crisis Growing Older Death Moving On The End! ILYK Link to comment
+gardengorilla Posted January 23, 2010 Share Posted January 23, 2010 oops, just read the actual OP over again...the history of MAN huh? Ah well, that's ok I had to sneak some fossils in there anyway. Should I re post? Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Just a question.... do I have to mention the names of the coins too??? I have in mind something..., but I do not know the names of the coins... I just found the photos I wanted and.... Link to comment
avroair Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 Are these coins we own or just coins in general? Just coins in general. Link to comment
avroair Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 oops, just read the actual OP over again...the history of MAN huh? Ah well, that's ok I had to sneak some fossils in there anyway. Should I re post? Nope, I prefer the history of something... man is so generic (and yes, there's a coin for that!) Link to comment
avroair Posted January 26, 2010 Author Share Posted January 26, 2010 Just a question.... do I have to mention the names of the coins too??? I have in mind something..., but I do not know the names of the coins... I just found the photos I wanted and.... Nope, no naming, just the images is fine... but you do have to tell a story! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Great! I have to tell the story?? Prepair my friend for a Big one!!! I will make a series of posts because I will use many photos!!!!! Link to comment
+opalsns Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Marriage Family Midlife Crisis Growing Older Death Moving On The End! ILYK TOUCHE' drneal, excellent Time Line Link to comment
+cache_in_hand Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 Drneal, great job on your timeline! Link to comment
+fairyhoney Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 I LIKE drneal's time line ! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 Yes! I like Drneal's time line too! Ok.. here is mine... It is quite big, so I will have to make many posts! I hope this is fine! I also hope for the understanding and forgiveness of the phto owners! I took them from the net so I can make my time line! If anyone do not wish the use of his photo, let me know so I can remove it with my deepest apologizes! My time line is about Earth, animal and man And let the time line begins...... Earth.... It was created 4.54 billion years ago! creation of mankind by GOD! The begining of life! Eve and Adam eats the forbitten fruit and they are leaving from Edem! The end of innosence! first living animals on earth! Fossils can be found today! they lived about 251 millions of years ago Dinosaurs rule on Earth! 230 - 65 million years ago! then they dissapeared from Earth! The first true mamals appeared on earth...200 million years ago! probably the first human... Australopithecus! the thinking intelligent monkey! Lived 3,5 millions years ago! from that time we started walking in 2 legs and later we started making tools! fire... according to greek mythology Promytheas stole the fire from Gods and gave it to Humans... the first contolled fire by humans... 400,000 years ago! To be continued..... Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) Cave art.. the first try of human artistic look of things! 32,000 years ago! the 2 egyptian kingdoms, the upper and the lower nile ones, united! the great Egyptian civilization is here! (3200 BC) Sphynx and the great Pyramid are beeing built on 2551 BC Minoan civilization in Crete! Bronze age 2700 - 1950 BC Stonehenge a beautiful and mystery stracture... probably a temple? 2400 BC Moses took the 10 comandments writen by the hand of God! 1513 BC? Trojan war between Greeks and Trojans!! 1194 - 1184 BC The great naval battle in Salamis!! Glorious victory of Greeks against the great Persian empire! The same year... we had the glorious battle in Thermopyles with Leonidas and his 300! 480 BC to be continued.... Edited January 27, 2010 by GATOULIS Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) Parthenon is completed (432 BC). The golden age of Pericles is here... 5th Century BC! The temple became the symbol of Democracy and the Symbol of Greece! The first mayan writen inscription...250BC Mayas are here! Chinese great civilization... the great chinese wall is builted! 220–206 BC Birth Of Jesus Christ! Year Jero for us! the begining of our time! Roman empire (27BC - 476AD or.. 1453AD)... Colosseum is builded! 80AD! Many Christians will lose their lives inside the next years! St. Helen, the mother of Great Constantine discovered the Holy Cross of the Christ! 312 AD Cyril and Methodius went to Bulgaria to teach Christianoty to the Slabs... the Cyrillic alphabet is born! 855AD Fearless Vickings discovered Iceland, Greenland and America!!! 1000 AD Crusades.... The try to take Jerusalem... in one of them.. instead of Jerualem they took Constantinople... bad years for Christianity! 1095 - 1291 AD Marco Polo visits China! When he returns he will bring Silk, and spaggetti so Europeans will get to know of them! 1271 AD Edited January 27, 2010 by GATOULIS Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) Castles are in every city, village... to protect the citizents... dark age... and medieval times... the end of the Templars! Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Order in 1312. Aztec empire is the most powerfull in America.... 1427AD... the coin shows the famous Aztec calendar!! One of the greatest men, Leonardo Da Vinci is born... 1452 AD... the Vitruvian man, was made on 1490! Renaissance is here! Christofer Colombus discovered America, even if he didn't know it!!! 1492 AD Inkas... the greatest empire in ancient america! Francisco Pizzaro executes the last emperor of Inkas, Tupac Amaru in 1572! Inka empire is history! Naymlap is pre Inka Theater... William Shakespeare Writes the great play of Romeo and Julliet! 1595 AD! Pirates rule the seas! Sir Henry Morgan, one of the greatest pirates died on 1688! He was burried in the Palisadoes cemetary in Jamaica! the cemetary was sunk in the sea after the Earthquacke of 1692! the famous pirate will stay in the sea for ever!! American revolution 1776! Hot air ballon!!! 1st maned flight, 1783 AD to be continued..... Edited January 28, 2010 by GATOULIS Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 French revolution 1789! The last King Of France and his wife are executed! (sorry I tried but I couldn't find any other French geocoin!) Napoleon the Great Lost the battle in Waterloo in 1815! that was the end of Napoleon's reign! He spent the last six years of his life under British supervision on the island of Saint Helena and died in 1821! G. Stephenson made the first public steam train in 1825! Alexander Dumas book about the 3 musceteers was first published in 1844! USA Civil war! 1861 - 1865 Alexander Graham bell got the pattent of his new invention... the Telephone!!! 1876! first car was made by Karl Benz in 1886!!! 1st successful flight by Wright brothers in 1903! Man can fly now! (of course Wright brothers didn't have the airplane in the geocoin!!! ) Titanic... the biggest naval tragedy! On April 14 of 1912 the ship was sunk in its first trip! it hit an iceberg! from the 2223 passengers, 1517 died!! 20th century did not start peacefully! 2 world wars happened and changed history, economy and borders of countries! The new era is here! WWI = 1914-1918, WWII 1939-1945. to be continued.... Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) first drop of an atomic bomb in Hiroshima on August 6th of 1945! 3 days later Nagashaki was bombed too! thousands of people were killed! UFO crashed in Roswell in new Mexico! A video showed scientists examining a body of a dead allien! 1947! True?? a joke??? Who really knows.... the 1st satelite in history was from soviet union! Its name.... SPUTNIK! 1957 First man on the Moon! July 1969!!! woodstock festival is born! august 1969 first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface. 1983 Nasa's Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated after launch, killing all seven astronauts on board! 1986. On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. Welcome internet for public and not olny for military!!!! n 1996, recognizing the importance of GPS to civilian users as well as military users, U.S. President Bill Clinton issued a policy directive declaring GPS to be a dual-use system and establishing an Interagency GPS Executive Board to manage it as a national asset. Dave Ulmer placed the first cache in May 3, 2000! It was a kind of experiment to see the work of his GPS! Geocaching was born! To be continued... Edited January 27, 2010 by GATOULIS Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 (edited) Moun10bike, a geocacher created the first geocoin on September 30 of 2001! this coins is the dream of all of us!!! the biggest hit and tragedy bacause of terrorism! the twin towers in New york got hit by airplanes! Thousands were killed! the whole Earth was socked! the tragic day... September 11, 2001! european Union's new money is in circulation! euros came in our lives and the currency we used ended... (goodbye my beloved Drachma!!! ) 2002! war inIraq Saddam droped from the precidency! 2003! In 2001 there was also a war in Afghanistan! Many soldienrs and civilians died! the coin is dedicated to the men who lost their lives for freedom! Mars.... scientists discovered a fossil warm in a rock from Mars! the first allien life!!! 2004! December 26th of 2004. After a huge earthquacke, a huge tsunami hit the coasts of Indonesia and other nearby countries! 230,000 died in that day in 14 countries! (I am sorry for using this coin for the tsunami! I couldn't find anything else! My apologies to the maker!) Harricane Katrina hit New Orleans!! The city was almost destroyed! Many places actually sunk under water! many were killed and others were helpless for days! 2009! New precident of USA is B. Obama! He is the first black precident of USA. Who knows what else will happen in the future?? Maybe we will explore and go to other planets, and have contact with other civilizations in the outer space.... Future is a sycret that waits us to uncover it!!! Edited January 27, 2010 by GATOULIS Link to comment
+burgessfour Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Wow, pretty good Nikos!!!!!!!! Link to comment
+fairyhoney Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 WOW Nikos - AWESOME ! ! ! Link to comment
gillianms Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Gatoulis, you amaze me. Absolutely stunning! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Thank you my friends! I worked a lot for this! I was trying to find coins to put more info etc, but I couldn't! there are many tings to be on coins.... Unfortunately... many of them from the ancient Greek history will stay without a coin... except from the money the coins cost (and since the things in Greek economy are bad...), there are not many active greek geocachers... in a talk in the greek forum, I saw that we are 10 - 15 left in whole Greece! I forgot to mention something about Challenger! I think that it was going to be the first time that a citizent after some training could go to space... Wasn't inside a female teacher???? Do I remember well? I do not know the time difference we have but here it is already 28th of January... So... 24 years ago, at the same day, challenger left for its last trip... after 1 minute and 13 seconds.... the tragedy happent! The 7 names of the crue were added in the list of the lost Astronaut heroes... Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Oh!!! I just saw that there is a geocoin with a native american on it!!! I wish I knew that earlier so I can put in my time line something for Native Americans which I really like so much!!!! Link to comment
+drneal Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 How about the timeline of a man? Love Marriage Life begins Childhood Teenager Graduation Work Boys will Be Boys! Love continued next post photobucket got sick on my posts earlier...should i resubmit my timeline? Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 One of your photos is missing.... and probably since days have passed you can not edit right? It happent with me too and I edited! Except that, in some photos, even if I was using copy and paste, I was seeing the same photos! Sometimes there are strange things happening! I do not think there will be any problem if you remake your time line! Of course... we have to wait for Mark too! I liked your time line!! I had no ides that there was a geocoin wit the coffin and the special car that carries them!!! and the dead guy is holding a GPS??? hmm... that is not an earth cache but an Under earth one! Ok... bad black humor! Link to comment
+opalsns Posted January 31, 2010 Share Posted January 31, 2010 Very Well done G-Man !!!! Link to comment
+drneal Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 One of your photos is missing.... and probably since days have passed you can not edit right? It happent with me too and I edited! Except that, in some photos, even if I was using copy and paste, I was seeing the same photos! Sometimes there are strange things happening! I do not think there will be any problem if you remake your time line! Of course... we have to wait for Mark too! I liked your time line!! I had no ides that there was a geocoin wit the coffin and the special car that carries them!!! and the dead guy is holding a GPS??? hmm... that is not an earth cache but an Under earth one! Ok... bad black humor! Not as intricate as your post...I was impressed with the work you put in! The hearse is on the markirene geocoin...a very fun coin. ILYK Link to comment
avroair Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Some great entries so far... anyone else? it can be the history of anything... Link to comment
+forthferalz Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 (edited) is it just me? where'd some of the photos go? ack! now they are back! i must stop watching stargate.... Edited February 1, 2010 by forthferalz Link to comment
+drneal Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Try again! Love Marriage Life Begins Childhood Tennager Graduation Work Boys Will Be Boys! Love continued next post: Link to comment
+drneal Posted February 5, 2010 Share Posted February 5, 2010 Marriage Family Midlife Crisis Growing Older Death Moving On The End! ILYK Link to comment
avroair Posted February 6, 2010 Author Share Posted February 6, 2010 Couple more days of entries... Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Anyone else to make a time line??? It is fun, educating and the price is so great!!! Trust me! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Anyone elso here for a time line before the cointest will end??? Come on.... or else.... I will post a time line again and this time will be with 100 coins!!!! Just kiding... but believe me... this can happen! there are many pretty coins and the history is huge so you can choose what ever you like!!! And.... the price is a very very good one!!!!! Even if I do not know all the coins.... I am 1000% sure that all are extremelly beautiful!!! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 No movement here??? Why? .... 4 cycles of the moon.... means 4 weeks??? Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Why this cointest is in so down?? It is such a nice, funny and educating cointest!!! Link to comment
+forthferalz Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 well lots of excuses - i got a book related one half done and then forgot to hit save! busy time- kids going back to school and the house seems to want to fall apart just now Link to comment
avroair Posted March 11, 2010 Author Share Posted March 11, 2010 Last chance to get up your history of ... gallery. Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 (edited) once upon a time...oh, about 10 years ago...in a land far, far, away called beavercreek, oregon...there lived a small family of adventurous turtles. one day while walking slowly through the woods in the month of may, the turtle family discovered a geocache under a tree and were so happy at their discovery, that they pledged from that day forward to help spread goodwill to others through geocaching where ever they traveled. so as the family grew larger, some turtles took their little ones in tow, and moved to other far away lands, never forgetting the geocache promise that was made. every where the turtles went, they placed a geocache for all to enjoy. some moved to the great american southwest and a few ventured further south to central and south america. some moved to asia and to other exotic lands of the far east. some even managed to swim to hawaii and all the other south pacific and indonesian islands. one adventurous little turtle dude even surfed the earth's seven seas all the way to antarctica! during his surfing adventures "down under" he left his own gem trackable on the island of tasmania for other geocachers to find and discover! cowabunga cool! a few of his cousins swam a great mediterranean sea cruise until they reached Greece and bought a few souvenirs, and a cool geocaching t-shirt, before touring all of europe. a few other long distance "travelers" made it all the way to africa on a wooden raft made of drift wood, and some mighty turtles even ventured to the "great white north" of canada in spite of the frigid temperatures and celine dion! some say that the turtles have helped place geocaches in over 100 countries around the world on all seven continents, including antarctica. as of March 8, 2010, there are over 1,001,000 active geocaches on the earth. maybe these little turtles aren't quite as slow as we think they are. the 10 year anniversary of geocaching has given all the turtles of the world a great reason to celebrate, and made them all one great big happy family! and so they all cached happily ever after...the end...or is it just the beginning?! Edited March 12, 2010 by Odyssey Voyager Link to comment
avroair Posted March 13, 2010 Author Share Posted March 13, 2010 once upon a time...oh, about 10 years ago...in a land far, far, away called beavercreek, oregon...there lived a small family of adventurous turtles. one day while walking slowly through the woods in the month of may, the turtle family discovered a geocache under a tree and were so happy at their discovery, that they pledged from that day forward to help spread goodwill to others through geocaching where ever they traveled. so as the family grew larger, some turtles took their little ones in tow, and moved to other far away lands, never forgetting the geocache promise that was made. every where the turtles went, they placed a geocache for all to enjoy. some moved to the great american southwest and a few ventured further south to central and south america. some moved to asia and to other exotic lands of the far east. some even managed to swim to hawaii and all the other south pacific and indonesian islands. one adventurous little turtle dude even surfed the earth's seven seas all the way to antarctica! during his surfing adventures "down under" he left his own gem trackable on the island of tasmania for other geocachers to find and discover! cowabunga cool! a few of his cousins swam a great mediterranean sea cruise until they reached Greece and bought a few souvenirs, and a cool geocaching t-shirt, before touring all of europe. a few other long distance "travelers" made it all the way to africa on a wooden raft made of drift wood, and some mighty turtles even ventured to the "great white north" of canada in spite of the frigid temperatures and celine dion! some say that the turtles have helped place geocaches in over 100 countries around the world on all seven continents, including antarctica. as of March 8, 2010, there are over 1,001,000 active geocaches on the earth. maybe these little turtles aren't quite as slow as we think they are. the 10 year anniversary of geocaching has given all the turtles of the world a great reason to celebrate, and made them all one great big happy family! and so they all cached happily ever after...the end...or is it just the beginning?! LOL! Ok, let the voting begin. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 Nice turtle story!!! WOW!! there are many different turtle coins!!! Voting has started?? WOW!!! How we can vote? with PM or email.... here in a post... how? Voting your self is ok?... even if I personally... do not feel comfortable to vote myself.. I do not know... Link to comment
Odyssey Voyager Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 sorry...i know my story wasn't the history of anything, but i had a bunch of turtle geocoin pictures and i just thought it would be way to connect the pictures to a theme. Link to comment
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