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Sent in one more guess, if I get this one and win the draw I'll have to give the prize away but that will be fun also!

Looks like all the coins are now committed to trades. Just waiting for confirmation on the last trade, thanks everyone! MRJIFFY Oh man, Always a day late I would contact theokotos directly, he may have some traders left! MRJIFFY

Looks like all the coins are now committed to trades. Just waiting for confirmation on the last trade, thanks everyone! MRJIFFY

Whoo hooo, I must have won since everyone is congratulating me! I just signed on having just come home from work! Thanks! MRJIFFY Good luck to all the players on the next rounds!

Yahoo! A right answer, now its up to the luck of the draw I guess. Good luck everyone who got it right. MRJIFFY

Sent in my answer! Fingers Crossed. MRJIFFY

Hi, I have two of the Theotokos Crown of Thorns coin in Antique Silver for Trade along with one in the Antique Gold. My seeking list is below, email me through my profile if you are interested. MRJIFFY

Hi, I still have a few of these left for this project as some of the traders never delivered on their coins. Email me through my profile if you are interested. I have also included an actual photo of the coin so you can get a better idea of how they turned out. Best Regards, MRJIFFY

Ok, I just wanted to update everyone that I have now mailed out almost all 50 coins to the geocachers who will be dropping them in various parts of Canada, the US and other geographies. I also dropped a couple of them locally so they are now "officially" out in circulation. I could still use 2 or 3 geocachers who would be willing to drop the few remaining coins. If you are interested PM me. Thanks, MRJIFFY UPDATE - I have had several geocachers offer to drop the additional coins in their areas, so I should be ok now in this regards, thanks everyone for their support.

Hi, If a group of cachers finds the coin, you can each post a photo separately of the coin and I will consider this an entry from each of you, but you will also need to return the coin to a cache as a group within the 7 days outlined in th rules. I realize only one geocacher can log the retrieval and drop to another cache, but you will need to post in the coin log/photo posting who was with you. I need this when I am confirming winners each week to ensure coins get back in to circulation. I expect honesty from each group, no saying your caching buddy was with you when they were actually not out that day or somewhere else please. If you discover the coin at an event, this does not count as outlined in rule #5. If you are the one who retrieves the coin from the event after it is completed, I would consider that ok to post a photo as an entry as long as you deposit it back in to another cache within 7 days of the event end. I would consider only one geocacher able to retrieve the coin from an event, a group retrieval would not be valid. Hope that helps, I am going to add the additional information to rule #5 for future clarity. MRJIFFY

The Silver Coins look great. The grand prize comes from a bunch of my own coins along with coins collected from many other geocachers conducting a two for one trade with a special trade only version of the Summer Meltdown Coin, so the big prize is also as a result of the geocaching communities support of this project through the trades and I thank them for that. Since the coins arrived a little late they traders are being packed up and sent out over the next day or so. I have plans for some coins to be released in Europe, but they probably wont arrive for another couple of weeks through, just in time for the really hot weather! MRJIFFY

This is the official start of the MRJIFFY’s Summer Meltdown Cointest running from June 21st to Sept. 21st, 2008. I have cleared the structure and design of this cointest many months ago with Groundspeak and have received their approval to run this cointest. The cointest is being run solely by me and Groundspeak is in no way administering this cointest in any way. All the coins in this cointest are trackable at geocaching.com The Rules and structure of the cointest is pretty simple (at least I’ll try and keep it that way). Over the next couple of weeks, there will be 50 Polished Nickel MRJIFFY Summer Meltdown coins released in various geographies of the world by participating geocachers including myself. To participate in the cointest you need to do a few things, these are: 1. Find and log one of the travelling Polished Nickel MRJIFFY Summer Meltdown coins. Only the polished nickel Summer Meltdown coins will count toward this cointest. 2. Take a photo of yourself with the coin. This can be done alone, in a group or whatever format you decide upon. Creativity counts here and I will get in to this further in to this post 3. Post the photo under this thread, along with any stories you might want to add related to either the photo or finding the coin. In the post, you must also include the two digit number that I have written on the piece of paper accompanying the coin and stored inside the vinyl flip. Please ensure the engraved tracking number of the coin cannot be read in your photo. 4. You must replace the coin in to another cache within 7 days of retrieving the coin to provide another opportunity for another geocacher to retrieve the coin. I am relying on the honesty of those participating to not just log a deposit and then give the coin directly to another geocacher(i.e. their friend), let the next geocacher actually “find” the coin in a cache. 5. You must retrieve the coin from a cache, discovering the coin at an event does not count towards this cointest, although you could retrieve the coin from a cache and post a photo with the coin at a separate event to use as your photo submission, as long as the coin is replaced in another cache within the 7 day limit described earlier. If you are the one who retrieves the coin from the event after it is completed, I would consider that ok to post a photo as an entry as long as you deposit it back in to another cache within 7 days of the event end. I would consider only one geocacher able to retrieve the coin from an event, not a group 6. You must post a photo with the coin and accompanying description to participate in this cointest, simply logging the coin does not count as an entry. 7. Each geocacher can only log each unique coin once for the purposes of the cointest, i.e. if you find coin #31, you can only post one entry for coin #31, even if you find the same coin in the future in a different cache. If you find another coin however, i.e. coin #45 you can create a new entry with this new find of coin #45. 8. For each week of the cointest, I plan on awarding two prizes to participants; the first prize will be determined by a random number generator using that weeks postings that meet the above criteria and the second prize determined by what photo/story I find the most worthy of an award for that week. For the purposes of the cointest, each week will run from approximately Monday through to Sunday evening, with the next week starting on Monday. Prizes will be either a LE Foggy Gold Summer Meltdown Coin available only as a prize (30 minted) or one of my organizers Summer Meltdown coins (40 minted) Winners will be announced for the last week at the start of each week in this thread. 9. At the end of the cointest period, I will select a winner from all the valid posts made during the cointest period for a grand prize of approximately 100 different geocoins. I will do this using a random number generator so everyone who participates in the cointest has the opportunity to win. If a group of geocachers finds the coin, the geocacher who makes the posting will be the one who is eligible to win any prizing. I will post at a later time additional details on the 100 coins, there are some very good coins included as part of this grouping! 10. All decisions made by me regarding prizing, eligibility of entries and the start and stop times of each respective week are final and non negotiable. I want this cointest to be fun, so let’s all keep it that way please. Coins should start appearing on June 21st, 2008 and continue to start their journeys throughout many parts of the world over the next 2-3 weeks. They can be found and watched on my profile as I will be the owner of all 50 travelling coins. Good luck to everyone, hope this is as fun as I anticipate it will be! Photos of the Silver coin are below. MRJIFFY

Hi, I will chime in here since it is very relevant to what I am planning on doing this Summer as many of you already know. I am running a very large cointest that will actually run for over 90 days, and I will be giving away at least one coin a week during that time and also a very large pool of "grand prize" coins at the end of the cointest (about 100 coins). From my knowledge, this will be the first time that this type of initiative of this scale (cointest initiative that is) has been attempted on this site. I thought it would be a lot of fun and get geocachers involved in the forums who might normally not participate. Having a time limit on my cointest would essentially destroy my particular project I have been working on, am just about to launch and spent nearly 2K to have all of the coins minted. I am selling about half of these coins to recoop some of my investment, but will actually be giving away a lot of coins at a cost out of my own pocket because I wanted to do something special for the geocaching community at large. I would hope that this type of time limit would not be put on my particular project, but would also agree with cointest threads being closed after the end of the cointest whether the cointest be one or two days long, or several months such as what I will be doing. Just my $0.02 MRJIFFY

Hi, Can I please ask the Mods to close this thread. I would like to start a new one for the Summer Meltdown cointest over the next day or so and if this thread exists it may confuse participants looking to post as part of the cointest. I have never requested to close a thread before, so let me know if I need to do anything else besides just requesting through this post. Best Regards, Jason aka MRJIFFY

Hi Everyone, Ok, first off thank you Helen for jumping in and giving a brief update on the Summer Meltdown coins, as mentioned it has been a bit fustrating however, the coins have now safely arrived and I am in the process over the next two days activating, packaging and shipping out the coins to all those who have traded with me and/or will be assisting with the release of the coins through various parts of the world. I will be able to release a few coins on June 21st here locally in my area, but the others will be released as the geocachers receive them (hopefully over the next two weeks). Still plenty of days for the coins to travel, although I was hoping to have them all released on June 21st, but now that looks like it will only happen on a partial level. This should still be a lot of fun and I want to thank everyone for their patience over the last couple of months. I will also be selling a black nickel version, but am going to hold off doing this so the travel coins can get packaged up and start travelling! I'll try and take some picutures and post them over the next day or so, trust me when I say the coins look great, I am very happy with the way they turned out. As nobody with the exception of me will have the coins in hand by June 21st, I would ask as the geocachers receive their coins for release, that they put them out in to the wild as soon as possible to try and get as many coins as possible travelling and people able to participate in the cointest! More details to follow soon. Can't believe the start date is actually here! Best Regards, Jason aka MRJIFFY

Email Sent! I will have an extra silver but I don't have them yet.

Hi, I am also looking for a BCGA coin from 2007. I am hoping someone has one to trade as I have posting a seeking message for this coin unsuccessfully 5 or 6 times in the past on this forum. I have quite a few different coins on my trader list. Fingers Crossed! MRJIFFY

Great looking coin! I don't purchase as much anymore due to budget restrictions, but had to get a couple of these....just beautiful. Copper was already sold out but got the antique silver and antique gold. Thanks!

It's coming soon Moop. Apologies for the small delay, the mint has taken a bit longer than expected to finish the run, but we are on the home stretch now! Best Regards, MRJIFFY

Hi, Yes I did receive yours, thanks for checking. MRJIFFY

Hi, I went to random.org and set up an random number generator to determine the winner, and the winning post by random number generation is PengoFamily with Post #38 Interesting facts about space: Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension. I am also awarding one extra coin, a MRJIFFY Party Poker Geocoin that was not selected through a random number generator for dimkasmir's response regarding a JIFFY being an actual unit of measure for time, which I did not know. Congratulations to the winners, please email me your mailing address out ASAP through my profile and I will mail your coins out ASAP. Thanks for everyones participation, I enjoyed reading the posts alot. Best Regards, MRJIFFY

I am now closing the posting for the cointest and am setting up the random number generator based upon the posts of all who participated. Be back in a few minutes with the winner! Thanks everyone for taking the "time" to participate! Best Regards, MRJIFFY

Ok, thought I would post a cointest for all those on the forums tonight. The prize will be one Time and Space geocoin to the winner (the one with the Blue center and Orange Glitter outer ring). I am having some troubles tonight with my picture hosting service, so no picture sorry. Its trackable and unactivated. Starting now, all you need to do to enter is post a fact about Time and/or Space to participate. It can be anything, as long as it has at least some element of factual matter within the post. Maximum of three posts (entries) for each Groundspeak member to give everyone a chance. I wll accept posts starting from now until 10PM Eastern Standard Time, at which time I will choose a winner using a random number generator to match someones post under this thread. Thats two hours from the time I made this post. Good luck and have fun. MRJIFFY

Address sent a couple of minutes ago. Thanks for your participation!

That is a sweet looking coin, hopefully makes its way over to this side of the pond! MRJIFFY