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The "Appalachian Fair Quilt Geocoin" was not a part of the "Geocaching the Appalachian" series. D-man

In doing series coins like this with the same basic shape and theme, just dropping in certain elements is all that is needed to change the coin from edition to edition. Unfortunately, the state didn't get changed in the original art sent to the mint when doing the New Hampshire coin. (the unfortunate result of late night designing and not double checking yourself )This was caught when the original AS & AG coins were made, but not before the dies were created. So, a second set of dies were made before any coins were actually produced. Somewhere along the lines, the orignal (wrong) dies were accidentally used to make the AC edition of this one. It seems the mint keeps ALL dies made, even it they are wrong. Geoswag is aware of this and is looking into options on how to handle the mistake. D-man

There isn't much I hate more than a low down scum suckin' thief! We've had thieves hit us twice. Once they broke into my car and made off with a complete stereo system, case of around 100 cassette tapes, a gold necklace I had looped over my gear shifter, and an ash tray full of spare change. Another time we had them break into a storage building we had rented to keep our stuff in while we moved into an apartment for a while. 10 years worth of Christmas decorations that we had aquired (including all the stuff our daughter had made in grade school! ), all of our camping equipment, a set of antique dishes that my wife's great-grandmother had left her, my wife's Elvis collection (books, newspaper clippings, original LP's, ...), my NASCAR car collection (only about 10 cars and a couple of signed pics, but still MINE!), all of my daughter's baby clothes (including the antique lace gown she wore home from the hospital), my wife's jr & sr prom dresses and her wedding gown, all of the furniture that we used in my daughter's nursery (crib, changing table, rocker, and wardrobe), and an engine & transmission from a car I was rebuilding. Which ones were they? Maybe us US folks could help you here? D-man

Weee Dawgie!! I've had one of these sitting on the shelf for a couple of weeks now and didn't even know it!! I was out of town working on a sign install job for a couple of days and it came while I was gone. My wife had laid it on the shelf where I put all my geocaching stuff thinking that I'd find it. Unfortunately it's one of those dry spells in geocaching at the moment, so I haven't even picked up my GPS & stuff off the shelf since the first week of October when we went on vacation. Heading out of town ASAP after I get off work on Wednesday to a cabin in the mountains for the coming Thanksgiving weekend, so I thought I'd load a few of the area's caches in my GPS tonight. When low and behold, "What's this?" COOOOL!!! I been roped in by the Bandit!! Thanks! The details in the bandana are an awesome feature!! D-man

Or a "THIS GEOCOIN IS ON BACK ORDER" geocoin. You order it and then "one day" it may or may not show up. (Wait a minute... I think this one has already been made a few times, huh? ) D-man

A "geocaching.com is Closed" coin.

Candy Canes & Angels, huh? Maybe . . ., Maybe NOT? D-man

Wow!! These turned out really awesome!! Glad the lip idea worked well. I wasn't sure how well it was going to line up with the hinge to let it close properly when I was desinging them. Definately a technical challenge that the mint was able to pull off well. D-man

Being a graphic designer the artwork was a major draw for me. From basic 2-D designs to full blown 3-D to spinners to suncatchers to ... on & on! Since I design quite a few of them, I keep at least one of everything I design to put in my portfolio. (Currently a backpack! ) One day I'll get around to taking pics of them and posting them on my website. (That currently has nothing on it. ) When I first started into buying coins, I would try to grab everything I could afford, now the design has to really jump out and grab me or the theme of the coin has to have some special meaning to me. The latest coin I purchased was the Fort Sumter Benchmarks coin. While the design of the coin is also very nice, the main reason I bought it was because we used to grab a weekend vacation in Charleston, SC every few years and usually made time to tour the fort. I hadn't got into Geocaching the last time we got to go about five years ago, so the next time I will have to activate one of the coins and take it with me to log into a cache around there. What few I have released into the wild were some of the more simpler designs that I think won't be grabbed up by folks that would rather keep them than move them. Of the ones I have released, my "Evil Micros" seem to move really well. -D-

There already is a non-trackable = crappy cache Yup!

Glad the presales go until Dec. 1! If my wife leaves me any $$ after her yearly After-Thanksgiving Sales dash , I plan on ordering a set. VERY NICE!! D-man

Why would a vendor even consider quantity limits? Sure, most of the ones around here cater to the cacher market, but they are there to make money. Pure and simple!! That would be like asking Sony to have quantity limits of PS3 Consoles they sell to major chain stores in major cities because Joe's Store in Podunk, Ga "might" want to purchase 2-3 to sell to their customers. First one with the cash is going to get the products, reguardless of how many folks are sitting around "considering" buying some. Supply and Demand!! You Snooze, You Lose!! I can definately feel for you when not getting a coin because it sold out before you could buy it. Been there done that! But move on. Buy something else that you think is nice. Grab a couple extra and try to barter a trade for the one you missed in the Trade post. Enjoy the fact that you have the expendable $$ to enjoy our little coin hobby. There are too many real problems in today's world to be fretting over created ones. Like a few of the other's that posted above, I can remember the frenzied selling of 500 coins in mere "minutes" when coins first started gettting popular a few years ago. I can remember when a coin's sale time and site would be listed on the forums here. And it would be like a party in here for an hour before they went on sale. Then, after the sale started, (and sometimes ended, a few minutes later) everyone coming back and bragging about "I got a Silver one" "I Got a Gold one" "I got a rock". How many times have you sat at your computer hitting the F5 button on a sale page to get a coveted coin? I can remember doing it quite a few times when I first started buying coins. What was it? I think it was the Georgia Peach coins that sold out 500 in under 2 minutes!! F5-F5-F5-F5 And I still missed them. I finally got one about a year later in a good trade. I miss those days! That's when the forums were FUN!! D-man

Just found this video on Food Netwoork's website! Everything you need to know about CANDY CORN!! CANDY CORN D-man

Glad everyone liked these! It was a really fun coin to work on. Folks wonder where us designers get our creative ideas. Sometimes it's just having the ability to see something in something else. The guys at Geoswag.com had contacted me and asked if I had any good ideas for a Halloween coin. I told them nothing right off the top of my head at the moment but I'd get back to them with something in the next few days. The next day I'm sitting at the sign shop (my day job) waiting on a banner to finish printing. I had bought a bag of candy corn at the dollar store across the street and was munching on them. Just to pass the time I started creating designs with the pieces of candy. Suddenly I realized the pattern below resembled a compass rose. (Must be the geocacher in me!! LOL ) Ooohhh!! What an awesome idea!! Who doesn't like a compass rose coin!!??!! I couldn't get home fast enough that afternoon to get to designing it. (The boss at the sign shop kinda frowns on me designing my own stuff on his time! ) After several revisions and adding other Halloween-ish elements we get the final design. (Someone mentioned black cats. I wished I'd included them too. ) Hmmmm... turkey legs, santa hats, hearts, shamrocks, bunnies... Ooooo!! I can see a reoccuring holiday theme set evolving in my mind now!! What do you think? D-man

I absolutely think you should NOT do a Christmas themed coin. The market is overrun with them and it would just add to the confusion of which one to buy. In fact, folk's need to save their money and buy their families meaningful Christmas gifts instead of another meaningless piece of metal. Psssst... wanna see my new Chrsitmas coin that's going to go on sale soon? Just Kidding!! I'm not really making a Christmas coin of my own. In all honesty and joking aside... Bring them on! If they are a good design and have an interesting enough theme, folks will scoop them up. I actually think folks really enjoy a nice holiday (Christmas, Easter, Valentines, ...) themed coin. Most of the previously sold designs of that nature appear to get sold pretty quickly. I know I've bought my fair share of Christmas coins (Geocaching & Non-Geocaching Alike) since it's our favorite holiday. Might a matching pin be a part of the package? I know I'm not alone in asking. There are quite a few of us that find just as much enjoyment from a nicely designed pin as well as geocoins. D-man

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But you HAVE to buy BRACH'S brand!! Other's just taste like sugared wax. I can remember the Autumn Mix at one time had Maple Flavored Corn Cob shapes. I really miss those. I guess they dropped them from the mix because the flavor would be absorbed by the rest of the candy as well if they sat around too long without being eaten. On Topic: The ghost were designed to be white. But, from the first preview pic, it looks like guys at Geoswag.com made an executive decision to make them glow. Good Call! I guess that's why they make the big bucks!! D-man

I'm a candy corn freak!! I absolutely love them!! In fact, I was munching on a pile of them when the idea for this coin came to mind!! That sweet sugary taste can be pretty overwelming though, after about a half a bag!! I also love Caramels! A few weeks ago I found a bag of "Brach's Milk Maid Caramel Candy Corn". I thought "HEAVEN!" EEEEK!! Now those things have a definate sugar overload!! 5-6 pieces and even "I" have to stop eating them. That's the reason I knew the exact name of them. I read the bag because I haven't eaten them all just yet. Anyone for a PEEPS Ghost? D-man

"Was" MIA! Funny how our day jobs get in the way like that. Thanks for filling in!! This was a fun coin to work on. You folks will really love them!! D-man

The center piece is sandwiched between a retaining ring and the main outer ring of the coin. The center piece is placed into the center of the main outer ring and then the retaining ring is snapped into place on the main ring of the coin to hold the center in place. Shoot! I'm a visual person! So, maybe this will help you understand, "if the above was clear as mud". D-man

Cool! Just bought our tickets this morning to see the STS125 shuttle launch on Oct 8th! Maybe if time will allow we will stop in and say Hi while we are there. D-man

Cows seem to know which way is north I just know there would have to be a funny coin to go along with this headline & story!! -D-

What would "I" do? After looking at the coin's page and seeing that there is only "one" log to the coin where it was "discovered" at an event (3 if you want to count the original owner and the current owner's logs to process an adoption), I would adopt the coin, send an email to the "one" lonely cacher to log it "discovered" explaining that you'd adopted it and were deleting all previous logs to start it fresh, and send it out on it's way. And go about enjoying my life. I'd just consider it one of those little harsh life lessons to be a bit more careful in bidding in the online auctions. To read the descriptions more careful and to use the feedback features to get answers to stuff I was unsure about. Is getting this worked up over a $8 (+s/h) coin really worth it? D-man

Here's one idea for an illusion coin I came up with a while back! D-man

If the ATGEOCOIN website is unavailable, please try again at a later time. Unfortunately the timing of this release didn't notify Mother Nature. Tuesday evening lightning killed the main server the website was originally hosted on and to say it was fried was an understatement. (Also took out a 2nd server, a cable modem, a router, 2 digital TV cable boxes & a TV Lighting hit the power pole and run in on the cable line is what we figure.) "Fortunately" we had a backup. "Unfortunately" the server that it now resides on is basically an old desktop machine that is severly overworking at the moment. Hopefully the new servers will go back online this coming weekend and things will be back to normal. Until then we may have some brief outage times while we get things transfered and up and running. Also, the artwork for "ALL" the designs will be updated next week as well. D-man