Maggie's Rose

Pay it Forward.
I couldn't part with the original, so I made a wooden duplicate. Poplar. The tulip tree is sometimes called "tulip poplar" or "yellow poplar", and the wood simply "poplar", although unrelated to the genus Populus. The tree is also called canoewood, saddle leaf tree and white wood. The name canoewood probably refers to the tree's use for construction of dugout canoes by Eastern Native Americans, for which its fine grain and large trunk size is eminently suited. The Onondaga tribe calls it Ko-yen-ta-ka-ah-tas (the white tree).

A compass rose is a figure on a map used to display its geological orientation.
It is also used to indicate geological orientation on the traditional magnetic
compass.
Since its inception, artists all over the globe have used the symbol as a
creative outlet.
Everywhere somebody opens a map; they will look to the compass rose as a
reference point, an anchor, something solid from which all things develop.
Sailors lost at sea, explorers charting new paths, and tourists trying to find
the nearest Starbucks may all find themselves gazing at the compass rose,
pleading it to show them the way.
It contains the answer so many of us have asked: Where am I? or perhaps Where
am I going?
What more appropriate symbol to incorporate into a token involved with
exploration.
A geocoin is a treasure, and there’s no way you’re gonna find treasure without
looking at a map. Well, these days, we use our computers and google earth and
garmin handhelds, but you get the idea.
The inspiration of this particular compass rose was based on a celtic compass
rose design of Kurt Nordquist, owner of DaVinci’s Workshop LLC
(www.davincis.org.)
This is the first geocoin I have ever designed.
Thanks goes out to oakcoins for their help.
I hope to make more someday.