Zarya.

Money is tight, but I just had to get a whole set! The cart malfunctioned and added two more of the mythical one for me, so I'll have an extra to trade with those who missed it.

They re-minted them, they are currently available on Coins and Pins website, and probably more than 25 exist now. Oddly, I did check when I posted and those weren't there. According to their description, though, those aren't remints - just those that weren't manufactured fast enough to make it to GCF. Still being LE, I wonder what their current minting is?

Thanks for the replies everyone! Just to clarify a misunderstanding, yes, I have always fully intended to work with a vendor - aren't they referred to as "manufacturers approved by Groundspeak"? To rephrase, all my questions are really asking: what kind of process timeline should I expect with vendors?

I just can't seem to stop thinking of designing and minting a coin I can call my own, after becoming infatuated with geocoins. I've scribbled several designs all over my books and papers, and drafted afew of them onto a graphics editor. What I'm concerned about, however, is how long it would take to mint one, from conception to the actual sale. What is the process like? Does it take months? Years? How many? The biggest show-stopper in my geocoin-making dreams is that for all of next year, I will be travelling long-haul, spending no more than 2-3 months in any particular location. I would essentially have no permanent address for the year and I'm afraid samples or correspondence from the manufacturer would simply leave a trail of debris behind me as I state-hop. The last time I did this, I left a trail of amazon.com books delivered to my ghost days after I departed in 5 cities across 3 countries, and half of them are still in between nowhere and book heaven. I sure as heck don't want my first geocoin project to suffer the same fate. Is it even possible to hope that a coin project can be accomplished within a couple months, leaving the rest to the mint? What kind of timeline would I be facing with which manufacturers? Is is more expensive to do things faster? I hope some of you experienced coin-makers out there can help answer some of my questions, or give a general idea what I'd be looking at. Thanks in advance~

The world needs more dragons.

Alaska. 2006. In solid silver. *drool* Once I get that one, it's game over. Closing shop. Goodbye eBay. I have a calculus final exam tomorrow and here I am drooling over it. Why didn't I start geocaching in 2006? Because I was in the military on the other side of the world? Big deal. I would *crawl* on all fours to Alaska for this one. If nobody incarcerated me in a mental institution first...

After looking through some galleries today, I discovered a very specific desire I didn't know I had: Seeking: Alaska 2006 Silver Trading: White Dragon Clan Gold Dragon Spinner Copper (LE - 250) Dragon Spinner Two-tone: Silver with gold core (LE - 100) If someone has an Alaska 2006 with 24k gold-leaf to let go, I'd even be willing to trade a Nocturnal Glowing Gold XLE (only 25 exist) for it. (Several other coins available to trade too, but I don't think they approach the value.)

1. What is your name (caching name is fine), location, age, and occupation. Zarya, Alberta, 20, student 2. What was the first geocoin you ever held in your hand? Canada Geocoin v2 3. Approximately how many coins to you currently own? 105 (I buy at least 2-3 coins per day since I joined GC.com) 4. Approximately how many coins have you released into caches? And how many are still active? 6 released, 2 inactive due to being launched into unapproved caches. 5. Have you ever minted a coin? If so - how many? If not - skip to question 6. In the works, but hard to do anything when travelling long-distance every few months. 6. What is your favorite color? Black. 7. What is your favorite food? Salmon. 8. What are some of your favorite songs/musicians/groups? Portal - Still Alive James Horner, JS Bach, Hans Zimmer, Joe Hisashi Play! Game Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra 9. What hobbies do you do aside from caching and drooling over coins? IT & computers, reading, biking. 10. Your general life philosophy can be stated as: Zarya.

I take pride in a DNF, even if only slightly less than a found, and log every one with retrospection far greater than that of a did find. The only difference a DNF makes is that I'll be back for more outdoors fun someday.

I usually log NMs when I did not find the cache after a 15+ minute search and one of the following scenarios are present: 1) There are several consecutive DNFs already logged (especially since most people don't log DNFs, three or four could mean alot more.) 2) The last find was months ago although several other caches close by have been repeatedly found recently. 3) There is evidence of an incident, such as swag scattered around ground zero. (After all, how often do you find flag lapel pins and golf balls in the middle of the woods or right next to a suburban road intersection?) I prefer to detail my reasoning, considering it not a negative, imperative call, but a open-ended heads-up, to the tune of 'Hey, just wanted to let you know that you might want to check on this cache, just in case something really happened to it'. If the cache actually is fine, all the better - and the owner's verification on the cache page would be greatly beneficial to all the DNFs who wouldn't mind going to look again. If the CO is bitchy about having to do that for a cache, he/she shouldn't have put it out in the first place. Otherwise, when a cache needs maintenance rather than being possibly MIA, I carry a caching toolkit with me and very often replace torn ziplocs or pencils, or add log sheets when necessary. I also have the habit of CITO-ing all those torn, dank black trash bags that some caches are wrapped with. If several already declared NM stating that the cache is destroyed, I would go in with a lock-and-lock and logbook, and patch it up to good as new, even if only temporarily until the owner comes back. The owner probably would be MIA him/herself to the tune of months to years, and the cache would need adopting, or an archive-relist. I also note, for every cache I goto, what trackables are present, and that the rest aren't, on the cache as well as the TB page - only stating 'is MIA' when the last log was months off - and so far the only responses I have had, thankfully, are positive ones.

Saving the page blank and copy-pasting the exact same code in fixed it. Not very scientific, but hey, it works! Thanks for sharing. Still, the developers might want to look into this bug in case it is symptomatic of a more important flaw.

I was under the impression that the presence of hunting was a hazard (so, to wear a bright vest while hunting for the cache) and not a permission indicator - the latter mostly covers modes of transport rather than other activities carried out while caching.

Yes. Other HTML elements, including div backgrounds, are displaying correctly. Did you check the "Page contains HTML" box above the cache description boxes? If you don't it strips the HTML. Jim

I have a simple link in my cache page, consisting of This multicache is a resurrection of a <a href= "http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c1dc0a6b-cec1-4171-bb12-3ac107fa467b"> neat cache</a> that once sat in the same beautiful area behind the college, albeit circa early 2001.<br /> I have tested the html of my cache page in htmltidy on notepad++ and there were no problems. However, everytime I try to submit the cache listing, it changes to This multicache is a resurrection of a "http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=c1dc0a6b-cec1-4171-bb12-3ac107fa467b">neat cache that once sat in the same beautiful area behind the college, albeit circa early 2001. <br /> And the same error pattern is exhibited on another link on the same page. Page in Question The links were parsing fine until this morning when I edited out a single sentence from the page description, but which did not have any code in it.

I'm almost desperate for the BC 2006 geocoin. Weeks of stalking ebay and trawling collection trading lists have been futile because I'm too late, too new, and have nothing worthwhile to trade for one..

The gold looked the best to me, but I just had to buy all three! If it sold out so fast, I have a feeling there is someone out there who has hoarded a small pile to sell for double price just a week after they first appeared in the store. Here I go, stalking the shipping & receiving center again. Sooner or later I'm going to be banned from that wing. Thanks for a beautifully designed coin, avro!

Would you be willing to sell coins on your trading list that are not on eBay?

Red Deer Geocachers http://rdgeo.com/forum/index.php For some reason, there is no provincial geocaching association for Alberta, but a multitude of regional-area groups. I wonder...

Nelson: These are reservations - no money is collected yet. I'm sure you can scratch up the fundage by then. I think these would be excellent gifts/prizes. A handful reserved. I will eventually have to compensate for this geocoin hoarding eventually by selling some of it, but for now, there are geocoins to be had.

I've been watching this thread since it was made - I look forward to their arrival!

Beautiful!

It arrived today in excellent condition. Thanks!

Pay attention to the roads, WATCH FOR BIKES! ...I'm surprised this is still running on.

That's a cool idea, but you would either need to stick your coins down, or use lots of padding, for them to stay in place with even the slightest vibrations, because of the difference in thicknesses and the surface reliefs. And then, you can only see one side of them for the rest of the table's usage.