​Fromia Hauk Geocoin​

Beschreibung/About the coin

English

"A friend of mine was sharing some pictures with me when he returned from a scuba diving vacation in Indonesia a few months ago. Although many of them were rather pretty, the beauty of one of them immediatelycaught my eye in a very special way. It was a picture of the beautiful red and white starfish, fromia monilis, otherwise known as the necklace starfish.

I had held dead starfish and seen pictures of other starfish that always seemed to be a bland grayish-white color. So although they were interesting, they never really caught my eye. This one, however, was different.

For several months, I had been considering creating my first geocoin, but hadn't been able to decide on the subject matter. Nothing had really inspired me. But as soon as I saw the picture of this starfish, I knew right away that it would make the perfect geocoin. So a couple of days later, I began designing it.

For about a month I would come home from work and add to the design and tweak the parts I had already done until I was happy with everything. When I got stuck on some parts of the design, a couple of friends kept encouraging me until I got through it. And finally, the design of the Fromia Hauk geocoin was done. The only thing left was to decide on the colors for the different editions.

Since the original inspiration for the coin was a beautiful red and white starfish that looked almost like it was jewel-encrusted, I knew that the regular edition would be red and white with gems as well. And so the red and white "Indian Spice" regular edition was born.

My own favorite color is black, so it only seemed natural to do an all black version for my artist edition. So the "Deepest, Darkest Oceans" artist edition includes black translucent and black pearl enamel with black gems with black nickel plating.

The purple and golden yellow "Royal Atlantic" limited edition; the blue and antique silver "Ice-Capped Waved" limited edition; and the white and glow "Pale Glow of Death" extra-limited editions were inspired by the color choices of some of my friends.

But I also wanted to create one edition to give back to the geocaching community that has given me so much. So the antique copper and green "Sunken Treasure" fundraiser edition was created to be donated to events and organizations like Geocoinfest and the St. Louis Area Geocachers Association (the local geocaching group where I live). They in turn are able to auction or raffle them off to raise a little money for their cause.

For an image similar to the one that inspired the creation of the Fromia Hauk geocoin, see the picture taken by Wikipedia user Hectonichus at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Goniasteridae_-_Fromia_monilis.jpg " Eravau (Designer)

Details

• Größe:
• Dicke: 3 mm
• Präfix:
• Form: Seestern
• Vorderseite:
• Rückseite:
• Registrierte Trackingcodes:
• Groundspeak Icon-Nummer: 8211
• Trackbar auf geocaching.com mit eigenem Icon und Mini-Icon
  

Editionen

Icon	Auflage	Bild Vorderseite	Metallfarbe	Farbe	Edition	Designer	Shop	Veröffentlicht
	80		Shiny Nickel	lila, klare STeine	Royal Atlantik LE	Eravau	Eravau	Sept. 2015
	80		Antique Silver	blau, klare Steine	Ice-Capped Waves LE	Eravau	Eravau	Nov. 2015
	160		Shiny Gold	rot, weiß, klare Steine	Indian Spice RE	Eravau	Eravau	Nov. 2015
	10		Antique Copper	grüne Steine	Fundraiser Edition	Eravau	Eravau	Nov. 2015
	40		Antique Nickel	schwarz, schwarze Steine	Deepest Darkest Ocean AE	Eravau	Eravau	Nov. 2015
	30		Antique Nickel	weiß/glow, klare Steine	Pale Glow XLE	Eravau	Eravau	Nov. 2015

Tags

Fromia Hauk, Seastar

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