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Got a motogrrl coin that is doing well so far:
Kansas Sunshine Geocoin 18 (Larry739) 7/1/06 27,745 miles
57Chevy's Black Nickel Generic Geocoin 4/27/06 25,979.3 miles
nielsenc Traveling EU Geocoin 1 12/15/06 24,115
FSU*Noles 2006 SEPAG Geocoin (TB135R5) 7/8/06 22,830.7 miles
AG's Traveling BikeDog Geocoin #2 04/07/06 22,653
TGE-GG Wisconsin coin 12/13/06 22,339
ICON HO!'s ParentsofSAM Geocoin - 03/24/06 20,640
Plem45's Grand Experiment (1-1) German Geocoin 01/21/06 20,121
bullit's Incline Village MG Geocoin 8/7/06 18347 miles
chaosmanor's GPS Spinner #2 - 7/30/06 - 17,770.9
Wild and Free #05 - World Travel 12/9/06 17,369
57Chevy's 2006 USA 01/15/06 15,628.2
Go Jaybee's Experiment - Damenace's Caching Around the World Geocoin - 01/21/06 15,129
Mighty Mut the Hiker - Fox & the Hound personal coin 04/26/06 13,790
911turbos Red Handed Coin # 2 03/07/06 13,482
Regions of Germany Geocoin - Saxonia 07/23/06 13,362
Worldchampionship 2006 Geocoin 03/03/06 12,948
Ozy's Ocean State Premier Race Geocoin 05/29/06 12,596
911turbos Geocaching Alberta South 7/16/06 11,934
AG's Traveling Balloon Geocoin 04/06/06 11,678
Go Jaybee's Experiment - Damenace's Joe Merchant Geocoin 01/11/06 11,582
chaosmanor's GeoNut #1 - 7/01/06 - 11310.9
Mystery Ink's - Found It! Geocoin 05/08/2006 - 10,849.4
Not So Lost Puppies: Midnight's World Traveller 05/20/06 10,691
Mauison's World Travel Geocoin 05/11/06 10,656
Aloha motogrrl, Cache On (sillygirl & jrr) 08/13/06 10535.4mi
TLB's Caught Red-Handed Traveling Geocoin 01/12/06 10,385
FSU*Noles 2006 Arizona Geocoin (TB10G53) 5/22/06 10,267.8 miles
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #3 01/12/06 9,898
Plem45's Grand Experiment (1-3) China Geocoin 01/21/06 9,104
Mueller Memorial Geocoin by Prntr1 03/31/06 8,600
Blue Canary Geocoin by Prntr1 05/02/06 8,483
TGE-GG BackBrakeBilly 10/21/06 8,527
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #24 02/02/06 8,397
Go JayBee's Grand Experiment - ^V^ New York '05 01/31/06 7,714
Shilo's Phone-a-Friend Geocoin 03/17/06 7620.1
Team LightningBugs' 2005 Traveling USA Geocoin 02/12/05 7,554
Montgolfier - The Great Race Balloon 12/16/2006 7480
CTKayak's Geo Screw Coin 03/05/2006 7,235
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #2 01/12/06 7,230
Go JayBee's Grand Experiment - ^V^ Iowa '05 01/31/06 6,686
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #13 01/26/06 6,685
Mauison's Prague Geocoin 04/19/06 6,255
Go Jaybee's Experiment - Damenace's Georgia Geocoin 01/11/06 6,193
Castle Man's Geo-Loot Coin #3 01/26/06 5,961
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #1 01/12/06 5,579
J&J Sisters Forever 11/24/06 5,188
Escout Released: Always Looking 08/30/06 4,897 Traveling with two below
Escout Released: Blue Canary 08/30/06 4,897 Attached to other two
Escout Released: Roberts 08/30/06 4,897 “
Escout: Signal “Radioman” 4/15/06 4,889 (traveling alone)
SWMG GEO ENGLAND 03/01/06 4,343
SWMG GEO ENGLAND 1 03/01/06 4,341
CR05 - Plem45's Finland Geocoin 02/05/06 4,302
Serial Finder's Personal Geocoin #8 03/24/06 4,143
Sandtracker's IowaBeaver Geocoin 12/25/06 4,073
Not So Lost Puppies: Not So Lost Puppies Travelling Coin 12/16/05 3,927
Ladybug Kids' Geonut Geocoin 06/03/06 3,666
CR40 - Plem45's Signal Geocoin - (Feb 06) 04/18/06 3,474
Wigoweb's Found It! Geocoin 05/09/06 3,360
Where is JoeMerchant? - #029 01/14/06 3,350
Ladybug Kids' UK Geocoin #2 05/20/06 3,327
Team LightningBugs' 2006 Traveling USA Geocoin 03/28/06 3,228
Jwucook's Evil Micro Geocoin released 6/13/06 2,988
Ozy's Two-tones Double Dragon Premier Race Geocoin 07/26/06 2,860
Kealia/Hula Bum Geocache America Coin 08/27/06 2,718
Scan My Barcode (sillygirl & jrr) 05/25/06 2,671
Kealia/Hula Bum Earth Geocoin 08/27/06 2,640
Cornerstone4's Bikedog Coin 03/17/06 2,637
Escout: Geocache Definition 07/30/06 2,584 now Missing
Serial Finder's Geocoin 10/28/06 2,522
Kealia/Hula Bum UK Coin 05/06/06 2,385
Sawblade5's MIGO Geocoin 05 (MIGO Refurb 2005) 01/17/06 2,366
PeaceTrain 05/27/06 2,317
Kealia/Hula Bum Georgia Geocoin 05/06/06 2,281
Dino CITO 11/5/06 2,269
Cornerstone4's Temecula Valley Event Geocoin 03/17/06 2,172
Mystery Ink's - Motorgrrl Memorial Geocoin 11/11/2006 - 2,166.3
SQ's Travelling Project A.P.E. Geocoin 8/9/06 2,152
Shilo's Geocaching U Geocoin 06/11/06 2106.8
CTKayak's Vermont Geocoin 07/03/06 2,103
ScoutingWV World Traveler 1 12/10/06 1,991
Wyohunter - My First Micro Geocoin Released 10/12/06 1849
IceCreamMan's Personal Geocoin #13 01/14/06 1,839
IceCreamMan's Personal Geocoin #15 01/14/06 1,764
RustyBeerCan's California Micro #1 04/07/06 1746
Evil Micro Geocoin - Fox & the Hound 05/06/06 1,695
Kealia/Hula Bum Iowa Geocoin 05/06/06 1,558
Signal Frostbite 03/26/06 1,491
Wigoweb's World Travel Geocoin 03/23/06 1,461
CR20 - Plem45's Generic Geocoin (mini) 03/03/06 1,458
The Grand Experiment - Remember the Maine... no date provided 1,434
Sandtracker's Spud502 Geocoin 02/17/07 1413
Kealia/Hula Bum's New York Geocoin 11/12/06 1,164
Escout: California Geocoin (with TB tag)11/13/05 1,092 now missing
Escout: Geocacher Definition 07/20/06 1,090 now missing
cainrcc's Alwayslooking 99 "Traveling" coin # 1 09/25/06 968
Southbayday's Grand Canyon 2 02/01/06 1,006
The Grand Experiment - Don't Screw It Up! no date provided 974
Sawblade5's Frozen Bone Geocoin (Bronze) 01/17/06 768
Tdecell's Mississippi Geocoin #1551 no date provided 743
Signal Geocoin Jan 2006 06/06/06 552
The Grand Experiment - Throw Me a Frozen Bone, Would Ya? no date provided 510
Wyohunter - Capitol Traveling USA Geocoin Released 11/03/06 358
Scan My Barcode-Generic Geocoin 05/26/06 334
Free's Pengy & Tigger coin released 02/28/06 262
Team Jsam's POW/MIA Coin: released 06/08/06 253
Sundailman's March Goecoin Club 04/06/06 218
Creacher's Pair of Nickells Geocoin 12/08/06 211
Claire's Birthday Zodiac Geocoin 07/03/06 168
Loggerhead LE 04/02/06 151
Sundialman's Earth Day Earth Geocoin 04/22/06 151
The Blind Acorn no date provided 111
Free's Lamppost Geocoin released 4/4/2006 04/04/06 93
Finland Geocoin 03/10/06 37
Hogwild Cointown 03/07/06 26
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All the best Lori. Very glad to hear that Jacob is doing well!
Antony
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I'm an admin over at the GBA forums... I don't see a GBA account listed with your username. Send me an email and I can help get you set up.
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Motogrrl Memorial $15
Back by popular demand! Quality HTF geocoins at bargain prices!
Not really... we sold these for four bucks.
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motogrrl Memorial Geocoin -- 1100 minted, $4.00 each
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I used to skate a lot... what's involved?
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This isn't only about my cache, this pertains to all the negative bookmark lists out there.
Life isn't all positive, get used to it.
Thanks for sharing your wisdom.
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Negative or not Travel Bug PRISON is the name that has become common useage for TB "hotels" with restrictions.
Positive vs Negative casting of caches is the whole point of the thread. Criminal even calls them good caches and bad caches. Bad is also a negative term.
This isn't only about my cache, this pertains to all the negative bookmark lists out there.
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I'd suggest the bookmark show on the cache page, unless
- It's been rated by 5 or more people.
- It has a "useful" percentage of less than 50%.
This is pretty fair. If there are less than 5 ratings it shows up. If 5 ratings or more the usefulness needs to be above 50% to be shown on the page. Thanks!
Sounds reasonable to me.
Another option would be that the cache owner can check a box on the listing that says display all bookmarks or consolidate as a "more" link on the page.
It'd also be nice to see a thumbs up / thumbs down next to each bookmark on the list instead of having to open the list to see the rating.
- It's been rated by 5 or more people.
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First of all, you are making an assumption that the TB Prison bookmark is negative. I have two lists, one of TB Hotels that have no limits, and one of TB Hotels with. The purpose was to see what the ratio was, good vs. bad. It’s running better than 2 to 1 in favor of the good hotels.
Prison sounds negative to me. If you had named the Prison List "TB Hotels with limits" we wouldn't be discussing this.
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Bookmark lists are great when used in a positive way; caches along a route, caches in a park or caches with great camo. When used incorrectly, lame caches for example, they can be very negative. There are examples of this scattered through the forums.
So here's where I'm coming from:
My cache has been stuck on Criminal's public TB prison list for having rules. I don't know Criminal, haven't ever met him or exchanged emails with him and looks like he lives about a 1000 miles away from this cache but for some reason my cache got on his list.
Keep in mind that in its two incarnations this cache has had over 300 visits with no complaints(that I recall) about TB rules. I keep a close eye on this cache and if I see bugs that are stranded I go get them and move them on. I also haven't ever received a complaint about a TB being stuck in my cache from a TB owner. So yes it does have rules but it does say that if you can help a bug with its goals there are effectively no rules (he conveniently leaves this point out on his list).
These "rules" were put in place on my previous cache mostly because a few local cachers used to go around gathering up all the bugs and jeeps and coins in the area. So people would come along and find TB caches empty. These people are gone now so I suppose they are redundant but if Criminal had just pointed out the thread to me and said "hey the general consensus is that there should not be rules on TB caches" I would have read it and said hey that sounds interesting. That seems like a good way of dealing with his particular issue instead of creating a list of caches that casts them in a negative light with no debate on the issue.
I look at some of these bookmark lists as cache page graffiti... any person in the world who has no clue who you are or how good your caches are can slap a this cache sucks bookmark list on your cache. Or "hey world I got FTF on this cache".... I don't think this usage of the lists was the original intent. The logs cover all of this; if it is a lame cache you'll see negative logs and people can read the logs to see who was FTF with no need to write it in stone on a cache page.
I think owners should have a say what lists are displayed to stop the negative usage of lists from propagating. The lists can still exist so if someone is interested in one person's opinions they can easily look up their lists.
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Any other replies... maybe from someone at gc.com?
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A flag in the subject would be great... I had been deleting them all without reading the contents when I noticed today that Black Dog Trackers had included a note in one of them for me. Now I'm going back through them all and making the requested edits
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Are there any plans to enable a cache owner to block a negative bookmark list from appearing on their cache page? It seems the original intent was to share caches that are cool to visit but now some are using them in other ways that don't seem appropriate.
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Nice coin.... I should do one of those for the GBA coin club.
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Wow, step away from the PC for a few minutes......
Coins will be sent to:
sillygirl & jrr
glennk721
Look for this coin in a cache near them soon!
Many mahalos!
Already decided the coin will start its journey here we didn't know motogrrl, but we think she would approve.
Very cool! Good to see them spreading out around the world and traveling... she would definitely approve of the cache you have chosen
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Actually please don't contact us just yet for motogrrl memorial geocoins, we'll post when we are ready to distribute outside of the area but it will be the same model as the Sunshine Gang has done with their Operation Spreading Sunshine, i.e. no shipping of coins.
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I drove the memorial geocoin effort with input from cachers in our local group; http://www.thegba.net. The intent was to get as many coins traveling as possible so that a large number of caches would have a motogrrl icon at any one time so the price was very low at only four bucks each. We thought getting a lot of coins out in the field would be a great way to memorialize Leigh Ann.
We produced 1100 black nickel coins plus a few samples. The coins are trackable and will have a custom motogrrl icon that she designed herself ( on the back side of the coin, left picture in OP ) and have an MG tracking prefix. There were six samples made: two of which went to the family, two more went to locals, one for me and the final one will be a FTF prize for a local cache that will complete Leigh Ann's chess puzzle series.
Many GBA members purchased them so I'm sure they will have some to trade but I believe most are just planning on releasing them so they do not sit in collections.
I do not plan to trade any of my coins as I am not collecting anymore so they will all be released as travelers.
A local cacher bought a large amount of coins to run a deal like the Sunshine Gang has done. You buy the coin but in order to not have the hassle of shipping the coins they'll be released locally and travel to you via cache
I'm sure they'll be posting soon since the cat is out of the bag now.Here's a link to Leigh Ann's memorial page.
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I've completely lost the desire to collect coins. Back in the day you knew you were buying coins at cost or just above. It is now blatantly obvious that people are out to cash in on the craze. I have a box of probably close to 100 spares sitting here and two binders with about 300 coins that I never look at. Unfortunately I don't even bother taking them to events anymore.
I drop most of my GBA coin club coins in local caches or when I'm traveling since I'm not interested in trading for other coins anymore.
To be honest I do plan to start selling off the whole collection soon to recoup my vast investment. I'll release the activated ones as travelers and I'll keep the special ones; local's, Moun10Bikes, oldies, GBA, ones that I found in caches etc.
When I followed in ND's footsteps and fired up the GBA coin club there was a certain excitement to building up a collection of state coins and trying to trade for the older coins. You never felt like you were being overcharged on the early coins but as more and more coins were released at increasingly higher prices it became obvious that we were padding people's pockets and it quickly lost its allure.
As others are doing, I'll produce my own coin soon but it won't be available for trade, it'll just be dropped in caches that I enjoy.
Now back to planning that weekend hike
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just a quick question for all in california....
would you prefer a well defined 3-d coin on both sides or a coin with color?
im thinking 1000 coins for regular
+ 100 LE silver and gold coins in 3-d
I prefer a nice 3D coin over color. LE doesn't mean much to me. I'm only interested in these because they are CA coins.
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how bout these two? going to change the font with coinsandpins.com back to the other style
Very Nice
watch out for that remnant CA behind CA 2006
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Here's my best one(TBMAMP)-- it was mailed over to Germany though to start it's journey so it not a true mileage total. I'm posting it since it is nice to see that a coin can travel to a bunch of caches(10 pages of logs) over close to a year and not disappear.
Edit: Ooops just saw the first post with a restriction for releases this year so ignore this post
TGE-GG Wisconsin coin - Jan 15, 2006 - 22,256.6 miles
ICON HO!'s ParentsofSAM Geocoin - 3/24/06 - 20640.7 miles
Plem45's Grand Experiment (1-1) German Geocoin 1/21/06 20,121 miles
57Chevy's 2006 USA 1/15/06 13032.1 Miles
Worldchampionship 2006 Geocoin - 03/03/06 - 11.303 miles
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #3 - 1/12/06 - 9639.2 miles
Plem45's Grand Experiment (1-3) China Geocoin 1/21/06 9104 miles
Bullit's Colorado Geocoin traveling Europe 7/19/2005 8323.7 miles
TGE-GG BackBrakeBilly - Jan 15, 2006 - 8142 miles
Go JayBee's Grand Experiment - ^V^ New York '05 - 31Jan06 - 7714.8mi
Go Jaybee's Experiment - Damenace's Caching Around the World Geocoin - 01/21/06 - 7219.5 miles
Go JayBee's Grand Experiment - ^V^ Iowa '05 - 31Jan06 - 6686.6mi
Go Jaybee's Experiment - Damenace's Georgia Geocoin - 01/11/06 - 6012 miles
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #7 - 01/24/2006 - 5926.2 miles
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #25 - 2/2/06 5701 Miles
Shilo's Phone-a-Friend Geocoin -3/17/06 - 5471.1mi
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #1 - 1/12/06 - 4929.4 miles
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #2 - 1/12/06 - 4916.9 miles
AG's Traveling BikeDog Geocoin #2 - 4/7/2006 - 4783 miles
AG's Traveling Balloon Geocoin - 4/6/06 - 4773 miles
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #24 - 2/2/06 4511 Miles
SWMG GEO ENGLAND -3-1-2006 4343 Miles
SWMG GEO ENGLAND 1 -3-1-2006 4341 Miles
CR05 - Plem45's Finland Geocoin 2/5/06 4302 miles
Serial Finder's Personal Geocoin #8 - 03/24/06 - 4143 Miles
BadAndy's SS coin - 1/24/06 - 3742 miles
Kealia's Maryland Coin - 2/19/06 - 3,612 miles
CR40 - Plem45's Signal Geocoin - (Feb 06) - April 18, 2006 - 3474 miles
Where is JoeMerchant? - #029 - 1/14/06 - 3350 Miles
Team LightningBugs' 2006 Traveling USA Geocoin - 2986 miles
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #4 1/24/06 - 2,637 miles
Serial Finder's Geocoin - 10/28/06 - 2522 Miles
Mauison's New York Geocoin - 01/06/06 -2474 Miles
Sawblade5's MIGO Geocoin 05 (MIGO Refurb 2005) - 1/17/2006 - 2366.1 mi
Kealia/Hula Bum North Carolina Coin - 5/6/2206 - 2,321 miles
AG's Traveling Camo Cache Coin - 2/1/2006 - 2174 miles ---> MIA sad.gif
IceCreamMan's Personal Geocoin #13 - 1/14/06 - 1839 Miles
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #23 - 2/2/06 - 1866 miles
IceCreamMan's Personal Geocoin #15 - 1/14/06 - 1764 Miles
BadAndy's Krugerrandy #16 - 1/28/06 - 1473 miles
CR20 - Plem45's Generic Geocoin (mini) 3/3/06 1458 miles
RBC's California Micro #1 - 4/7/06 - 1040 miles
Southbayday's Grand Canyon 2 - 2/1/06 1006 mi
ScoutingWV World Traveler 1 - 2/26/06 - 851.5 miles
Sawblade5's Frozen Bone Geocoin (Frozen Bone Bronze) - 1/17/2006 - 768.4 mi
Tdecell’s Mississippi Geocoin #1551 – 743.3 miles
Free's Pengy & Tigger coin released 28/2/2006 (or 2/28/2006 for everyone else since Im British) 262 miles
Sundailman's March Goecoin CLub released 4-6-06: 218 miles
Loggerhead LE: release 4-2-06 151 miles
Sundialman's Earth Day Earth Geocoin released April 22, 2006 151 miles
Shilo's Toronto 2006 Geocoin - 5/19/06: 101.1 miles
NSLP Travelling China Coin: March 27, 2006: 95 mi
Free's Lamppost Geocoin released 4/4/2006 93 miles
Team Jsam 2006 CITO: released 4-21-06: 57.8 miles
Finland Geocoin 3-10-06 37.4 miles
Hogwild Cointown 3/7/06 26 miles
Team Jsam Nevada 06: released 4-20-06 3.9 miles
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I received my pewter coin in trade from him last week. That completes a transaction that spanned 7 months. What a shame that people are still waiting for coins. Loridarlin let me know if you don't get them and I'll send you one since I still owe you
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Looking for an April Geocoin Club coin. Have GBA coin club microchips or spring coins to trade.
Oops I need May not April -- just found an April in mail this morning.
Question about Memorial coins.
in Trackables
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When we did the motorgrrl coins we set the price very low (four bucks), which allowed us to sell more and get the subsequent discount. We also sold to locals only. Our thinking was that if they were very cheap and available to locals only that the majority of coins would travel and Leigh Ann's icon, which she was very proud of, would show up on a bunch of cache pages around the world. That seemed like a cool way to memorialize her. However, if the family had needed assistance we would have set the price considerably higher; in the 7.50 - $10 range and sold worldwide to generate as much money as possible.
Feel free to send me an email if you have any other questions.
Best wishes to Jon's family.