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I understand this...but some of those prices...say, for the Scotland coin...isn't that like 3-4 times the original cost? This isn't a thread to debate what we paid for the coins. I'm donating what I paid as well as what they sell for. Here are a couple non-fundraiser coins that went for more than they cost. http://cgi.ebay.com/OIFGA-Geocoin_W0QQitem...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/2005-COMPASS-ROSE-GEOC...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/Royal-Flush-ACE-159-Ge...1QQcmdZViewItem Incidentally, I have seen several fundraiser coins end for over a few hundred dollars which is probably more then they cost. This is a thread to let you know coins are available if you want them and are willing to pay what is being asked. If you can find the coins cheaper, enjoy. Thanks for looking and spreading the word to people who may be interested. These coins are all from the early heyday of geocoins and some of the recent entrants to collecting may not have had a chance to get them. Here is their chance. Like anything that may not be readily available anymore, the price goes up the harder they are to aquire. http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1 Wow, this one even went for $117.57 http://cgi.ebay.com/Lemon-Fresh-Dog-GEO-BO...1QQcmdZViewItem

It is a fundraiser not a clearance sale. About half the coins have sold with the buy-it-now option already. http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1

I have a few more of these coins listed now. I have also got a few of the geocoin club coins listed. http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1 Just a reminder that these coins are being sold as a fundraiser and that is why they have higher prices.

Scotland coin on ebay Rest of my geocoin collection: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=163231 http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1 I wish I had spelled Scotland right on the title. Now it won't let me fix it.

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1 I have quite a few of them listed now. I have the following available: State Geocoins: Tennessee TN geocoin pewter finish 2005 Tennessee TN geocoin silver finish 2005 Tennessee TN geocoin gold finish 2005 Tennessee TN geocoin micro 2006 New York NY geocoin 2005 Kansas KS geocoin 2006 New Mexico NM geocoin 2005 Maryland MD geocoin 2005 Washington WA geocoin 2004 Oregon OR geocoin 2004 New Jersey NJ geocoin 2005 Michigan MI geocoin 2005 Alabama AB geocoin 2004 Texas TX geocoin 2003 Texas TX geocoin 2006 California CA geocoin 2004 California CA geocoin 2005 Pennsylvania PA geocoin 2004 http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1

Never mind, I saw that shipping includes insurance which explains the higher price. Actually, I'm eating the shipping and insurance and the orriginal amount paid for the coins and the ebay listing fees. The total amount paid via paypal is getting donated. I have a bunch of the geocoins listed here: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1

I have emailed Groundspeak for permission. In the meantime I will look thru my coins and identify the nontrackable ones. The trackable ones are still for sale while I wait. Let me know which ones you want first.

What is your motivation for this?

On ebay, yes. You are welcome to send me an email offer if you are outside US / Canada and we can work out shipping details, etc.

This first post is a list of all the unactivated coins I have available. I am placing them on ebay a few at a time as I can type up descriptions for them and take pictures. I'm posting the whole list here to give you all a heads up. I am donating all sales, so I'm not interested in trades or lowball offers. You are welcome to post the ones you are interested in and I will try to list them ahead of the others. You may also suggest fair starting bids. Remember, this is a fundraiser. Once I get thru the unactivated ones, I'll start on the activated coins in my collection that can be adopted to your user account once sold. It has been very fun collecting these coins, but this is a chance for me to let many of you enjoy the fun and excitement when an old collection is divided up while also allowing me to put the money to use for even more people to enjoy than were currently enjoying my coin collection. Everybody wins. Enjoy, - TheStosh You can view my geocoin auctions here: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1 http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZthestoshQQhtZ-1 I have the following unactivated geocoins available: State Geocoins: Tennessee TN geocoin pewter finish 2005 Tennessee TN geocoin silver finish 2005 Tennessee TN geocoin gold finish 2005 Tennessee TN geocoin micro 2006 New York NY geocoin 2005 Kansas KS geocoin 2006 New Mexico NM geocoin 2005 Maryland MD geocoin 2005 Washington WA geocoin 2004 (Not for sale until I get permission from Groundspeak) Oregon OR geocoin 2004 (Not for sale until I get permission from Groundspeak) New Jersey NJ geocoin 2005 Michigan MI geocoin 2005 Alabama AB geocoin 2004 (Not for sale until I get permission from Groundspeak) Texas TX geocoin 2003 (Not for sale until I get permission from Groundspeak) Texas TX geocoin 2006 California CA geocoin 2004 (Not for sale until I get permission from Groundspeak) California CA geocoin 2005 Pennsylvania PA geocoin 2004 (Not for sale until I get permission from Groundspeak) Country geocoins: Scotland 2006 UK 2005 EU (first one?) spiraled text on one side Canada (first one?) USA 2006 USA 2005 Portuguesa 2006 Luxembourg 2006 Geocoin Club geocoins: November 2005 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 May 2006 July 2006 March 2006 April 2006 June 2006 October 2005 Event cache geocoins: Geoquest gold color finish 2006 Geoquest silver color finish 2006 Spring Fling Camp Out 2006 Geowoodstock 4 Other geocoins: Compass Rose geocoin 2006 Civil War Series 1861-1865 #1 Fort Sumter April 1861 Hurricane Katrina Relief 2005 Micro-Mini geocoin 2006 Groundspeak has granted permission for the sale of these non-trackable geocoins bearing the Groundspeak Trademark Geocaching.com logo.

Wow, there is never a dull moment on the forums. As is often the case, things are not as they first seem, and are not nearly as exciting as we would hope. Jon sent me 2 geocoins to place in 5/5 rated caches per my request. I was going to place a couple underwater / scuba-caches and place those coins in them as added incentive. Alas, life caught up to me and I never got them placed. Several people contacted me wanting the coins and even suggested caches that already existed and had 5 or 4-star ratings. Eventually, weighted down by guilt at having not held up my end of the deal, I handed one off to another geocacher who was going to place it in a high star rated cache. There was no trade or other incentive. I simply met him at a local geocache and handed him the coin, end of story. The other coin was taken to an event cache and passed around. As far as the white ring is concerned, that is a different plastic case than the one mailed to me. The original broke in the mail, so I replaced it with one of my own cases. The case is larger than the original, and thus has a spacer. What about the mysterious bogus coin? I have a geocoin collection composed entirely of geocoins I have purchased from their creators / distributors. I wanted to add a moun10bike coin to this collection without taking it out of circulation. I made a duplicate coin with a similar weight and feel to put on my shelf with the others. It would never get circulated, so this would have no effect on the sport or anyone for that matter. It was a placeholder on the shelf. Unfortunately, the same circumstances that kept the 5-star caches from getting placed kept the geocoin shelf from getting built. All the coins floated loose amongst several boxes of geocaching stuff. Add time and a house move or two and things get mixed up. I’m still looking for a couple travel bugs and some of my own personal geocoins. This is why I have all but quit picking up travel bugs. I don’t want to be responsible for loosing any more until I can find the others. I was quite surprised when a friend emailed me with a link to this thread. Holy cow, that was my placeholder coin that I passed off. At first I felt like an idiot for not noticing the difference when I grabbed it out of the box of geocaching stuff, but I guess several other people felt it look pretty good as well. That was the intent. It was supposed to look good on my shelf. I didn’t foresee my “collection placeholder” ever making it into circulation since someone would have to basically steal it off my wall. I thought that was a great solution to people taking other geocachers’ personal coins out of circulation for their own collection. As far as the location of the original, your guess is as good as mine. It should be somewhere in my possession since it is obviously not in Austria! I’m not sure what I’ll do if I ever find it. Maybe I should mail it back to its original owner as a peace offering. Anyway, no ill intent or deception was intended. No goods were exchanged. No profit was made. I don’t think the people who logged the coin should go delete their logs or anything. For all intents and purposes, that coin was and should have been the authentic coin #204. It is a replica of it and pretty well looks and feels identical to it if you leave it in the plastic case, which most people do. Feel free to send you flames and comments my way. I can’t undo it, so all I will offer is the explanation above and an apology for the confusion and any hard feelings that may have developed. EDIT: corected Germany to Austria

I would like one as well.

5 for me

Do you have a TN geocoin yet. If not, may I be the first to offer a trade?

I'd like 5 please.

I'm all for this category. I just about proposed it before searching first.

I don't guess we need to elaborate too much on this one. It is the same as the two that already exist: Directory Home > Things > Historic Things > Tennessee Historic Markers Georgia Historic Markers http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/default...10-8d0671f0b209 Pennsylvania Historic Markers http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/default...28-7e33c4db0ba0 Roadside historic markers are our windows to the past. They educate us, they make us curious to investigate, or they provide a nice excuse to take a break and stretch our legs while we read what happened here. Volunteer State! Seek out a Tennessee Historical Marker. Record the coordinates, text, and a picture of the marker.

Well, the 5-year mark is here. I don't guess we got our new icon in time, but we can still try to get it in the future.

Here is a related thread with links to first caches placed in each state. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=70931

Some states just won't get the cache active again. The people who already found it with have the icon. If there is a wooden plaque at the one mentioned, it could easily have a verification method to log the location. If the first cache was never found, the next oldest one might be appropriate. Just some ideas. What we are looking for here is to see if there are very many people that would like the idea for the existing caches and the ones that could be revived.

I think it would be really cool to add another cache type icon for the first cache in each state. I see they added the new "small" size to the list of options for geocache hides. The many 3rd party programs we use have been modified to include it. I guess they could be modified for a new cache type as well. Anyway, I still think it is a good idea as a way to highlight the first cache ever placed in each state even if they are archived.

I plan to order 10 or more as well.

I think it would be neat to profile some of the first caches placed in each state / country. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=70931 Maybe we could have the dates they were placed listed on the calendar.

I did a road trip and found 2 "State's First Caches" this last week. LPS001 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC132 Missouri's First - Watts Mill http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC37 It was pretty neat to be able to find these sites since they have a certain historic value to the geocaching comunity. Maybe soon, we will have a special cache category and icon just for them!

Most of these apps are updated pretty frequently already. Any additions to the type of caches could be added to the next release of the programs. From a programmer's standpoint, I write programs and scripts to be very modular and adaptable. I imagine that most of these programs could be adapted to include an additional cache type without spending more than 30 minutes on the code. As far as the pocket query goes, I don't imagine it would take much additional code either. Remember, these cache types are defined as types. All queries are based on these types. I don't think it would be very hard to add another type to a structured source code. Correct me if I am wrong? I think the biggest thing would be whether there is enough demand to dedicate the time to it…