The Sextant Geopin™ is a commemoration to the sextant. It also compliments the Sextant Geocoin™. The octant and sextant replaced most of the earlier navigation tools in the late 1700s such as the back staff, mariner's astrolabe, and quadrant. The octant is 1/8 of a circle and a sextant is 1/6 of a circle. The sextant allowed for more range in the degree scale over the octant.
The biggest improvement the sextant made over all other sighting tools (except the octant) is its double reflecting mirrors which eliminated the ocular parallax other tools caused. It also allowed for greater accuracy by having finer degree adjustments.
The sextant design is so universal and accurate that it is still used on ships today as a backup instrument to electrical navigation devices. Even aircraft used these as backups if their avionic systems failed.
The Sextant Geopin™ is trackable on Geocaching.com and has its own icon. It was made in both antique silver and antique bronze finishes. The antique bronze pin is the only finish open for public sales.
The bronze pin is currently for sale on the Geopins page of CoinsAndPins.com. If the pin does not show on that page, then the pin is temporarily sold out and will be back in stock at a later date. Sign up for the CoinsAndPins.com mailing list to get notified when the other coins are ready for sale.
