Nomad and the Librarians

It would be nice if the activation codes or instructions weren't too tortuous, too. I recently bought a Canadian coin. I got the activation instructions when I ordered the coin. Three weeks later, when I received the coin, I had forgotten that I had already received the instructions, what I had done with them, etc. I spent an unpleasant several hours trying to get the Canadian coin folks to help me before I stumbled across the instructions on my computer. Activation for the European coin was not quite as bad, but it certainly would have been easier and less unpleasant if the instructions had arrived with the coin and had been simple. I am making notes so that if/when the boss allows me to issue a coin, I make a whole new set of mistakes.

I may have missed part of the discussion. I would like to be included on the waitlist for 2 LE Kansas coins. (If I did this wrong, please chalk it up to enthusiasm not discourtesy or idiocy.) I already bought and paid for 3 regular coins. Thanks.

I have had more than 100 travel bugs pass through my hands. I have yet to lose or steal one. I have handled a couple geocoins, no personal ones, and passed them along. I have started 8, I think, bugs. None has survived. I have several unused tags. I don't know what to do with them. I will not release any of my geocoins. They may not disappear any faster than the TBs, because I am not sure they could. I did not buy them for other people to keep them or lose them.

Great looking coin, round or not. Please list me for three!

Love the plain metal look. Put me down for 2. Thanks.

Sign me up for 3? Thanks.

The Head Librarian likes the second one best. I don't like the third one, but my preference is always a metal coin rather than color or photo, so I am not voting.

It seems to me that this is an open market. No one forces anyone to buy a coin. Someone earlier made the point that if the price is too high, no one will buy the coin. I recall a story many years ago about an apple seller in the depression. He only had one apple. When he was asked how he could survive with only one apple to sell, he said, "It costs a million dollars. I only need to sell one." Prices rarely reflect the cost of creation. The government has all sorts of price controls to keep prices artificially high. When I was young, farmers dumped their milk into the sewers of my home town to protest the low prices. Finally the government stepped in to buy the excess milk and keep the prices high enough that dairy farmers could stay afloat. If a coin is limited or perceived as limited, it has increased value because it is rare. Doesn't have anything to do with the cost of minting the coin. Has to do with scarcity. I used to collect American coins. There are pennies that sell for hundreds of dollars. Some rare ones for more than $1000. They all cost the same to mint. Their value is in their scarcity, not in the cost of production. I am not sure what you mean by "more than they really should." They should pay what the seller asks or what they can barter the seller down to, if they want to buy the coin. If the price is too high, they shouldn't buy the coin. Again, this is not a staple item. No one needs a geocoin, no matter how beautiful, to survive. The people who create these coins should be encouraged to keep doing so. They should charge all the traffic will bear.

Please put me on th elist for 2 coins.

Please put me on your waiting list for 2 coins.

I would like to order two coins, but I can't figure how to do it.

That's my position about geocoins! How does one determine the "quality" of geocoins? I haven't seen a coin yet that stood out from the pack either as particularly good or particularly bad. My boss likes the coins with color. I prefer the all metal one. The designs are all attractive and clever. The coins are different sizes, have different edges, cost different amounts. What is the standard of "quality" when judging these coins. The fact that every minting is unique gives even an "ugly" (whatever that means) coin a significant value as a collectable. Even a virtually blank coin would be unique. Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians

No stuffing please! Can we haved mashed potato's instead? After the effort and headaches, what GA Cacher needs now is more jokes like that.

I did not get my coin from the Canadian website. I bought it from another geocacher. How do I register it? Thanks, Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians

Sexy coin. I just paid for three. Thanks, Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians

Please reserve to regular screws for me? Thanks, Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians

How does one tell who was first? How do I tell what "number" I am? The lists seem to be more-or-less in alphabetical order. My email is time stamped 10:00:12. I know someone else said his/her email was stamped 10:00:03, so I wasn't first, but how would anyone but the recipient know? Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians P.S. Whoo-hoo! My first successful buy! I was up at 4:38 this morning, not worrying about the sale, but anticipating it.

Usually with bad spelling I can figure out what the person is trying to say, but you have me stumped with "tendure." What word are you trying to use here? The only things I can think of are "tender," as in "legal tender," but that seems so easy to spell I must be in error, and "tenure," the meaning of which doesn't make any sense in this instance. I am interested in your topic and I am trying to understand, no flame. Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians

My email was time stamped at my end at 10:00:12. I hope that was fast enough! How does one tell what number in the cue one is? Ordered: 1 Gold $9.50 1 Silver $8.50 2 Bronze $7.50 Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians

Here's hoping I can figure this thing out in time. Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians I would like: 1 Gold $9.50 1 Silver $8.50 2 Bronze $7.50 Total $33.00 Dan Mason 1716 Memorial Ave. Williamsport, PA 17701 Thanks, Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians

Does North Central PA count? I would like two coins as well.

Nifty little contest. Can we enter more than once? My son, (The Middle Librarian) our dog (Only re-reads Old Yeller books) and I went after this one Thanksgiving afternoon. We needed to get out of the house for a little while. The temperature was hovering about 15 degrees f. Oddly, the ground was wet rather than frozen. We had no trouble getting to the general area, but finding the cache proved too difficult in the first frigid weather of the season. We looked for perhaps 30 minutes getting colder and dirtier. I looked in several holes - gopher or rabbit type. We searched under all the "small trees," as mentioned in the clue, that we cold find and had no luck. I went back solo on Friday, determined to find the cache. It was slightly warmer and the ground was dry. I stuck my arm into the most obvious hole and practically buried my nose in a much less obvious hole. Withdrawing my arm from the obvious hole, I dipped my fingers into the smaller hole. Nothing. I knew no one would hide a cache in there, but I was bound to be thorough. I probed deeper and felt nothing. When I pulled my arm out, it scraped some of the leafy debris away from the hole and revealed a plastic bag. There was the cache. I found the cache before you posted your challenge, but I didn't log it until today. If this doesn't count, I will do another one. The adventure probably won't be as good, though. Nomad of Nomad and the Librarians I just dropped off my personal geocoin in the following cache: Play Ball by pathfinder100 N 41° 10.097 W 076° 52.250 UTM: 18T E 343057 N 4559125 SE 9.3mi from your home coordinates. or convert to NAD27 at Jeeep.com In Pennsylvania, United States [view map] Hidden: 10/21/2005 Use waypoint: GCR220

Not sure I buy this. I am not interested in the coin because it's "vaulable." I am interested in the art. I think I would like to belong to the community. I am not sure I can/do belong until I have actually managed to buy a coin. From the outside it seems as if the difficulty in getting the coins makes joining the community difficult. Anyone "investing" in the coins for their value is going to have an interesting retirement.

A lottery seems like a good idea to me. It seems as if the same people buy all the coins. Maybe I'm not fanatical enough. I have missed almost a dozen sales since I found out about this activity/forum. It would be nice to be able to get one once in a while. So far I have been able to buy none. Little pieces of art. Glimpses into the lives of the artists. I think I would enjoy collecting the coins. I'll let you know if/when I get one. If I can't buy any, I can't collect or trade them. Flame away.

I ran across this by mistake. Good mistake! http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...6lr%3D%26sa%3DN